Quotes About Insight

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

Wherever I go I need a period of incubation so that I may learn the essence of nature, which never wishes to be understood or yield herself.

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.

Look at Nature. Nature is a book from which we must learn. Each object in it is a page of that book.

He who goes to the bottom of his own heart knows his own nature; And knowing his own nature, he knows heaven.

Living in the world without insight into the hidden laws of nature is like not knowing the language of the country in which one was born.

It's only when you look at an ant through a magnifying glass on a sunny day that you realize how often they burst into flames.

To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

The more you look, the more you will see.

Everything we see in nature is manifested truth; only we are not able to recognize it unless truth is manifest within ourselves.

Knowing comedy is knowing human nature.

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life.

Those who have obtained the farthest insight into Nature have been, in all ages, firm believers in God.

I look at nature, I see myself. Paintings are mirrors, so is nature.

The psychedelics are this immense tool for the inspection of our own nature.

History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.

Listening to nature's operating instructions.

The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.

The visible world is a daily miracle, for those who have eyes and ears.

To look at any thing, If you would know that thing, You must look at it long.

Man must go back to nature for information.

My long experience with all classes of humanity had made me somewhat of a student of human nature.