Quotes About Insight

I think a single sentence by Van Gogh is better than the whole work of all the art critics and art historians put together.

I knew de Kooning and I went to his studio so I knew about de Kooning's work. But only a little handful knew about it, you know. Maybe there were ten people that knew about it.

Most striking at first is the appearance of sudden illumination, a manifest sign of long unconscious prior work.

Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.

Giger's work disturbs us, spooks us, because of its enormous evolutionary time span. It shows us, all too clearly, where we come from and where we are going.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

Ive been making products for so long, I have a gut feel for what is right - what will work and what wont. I can tell instantly if its a hero or a zero.

In general, and most especially with artists, I pay as much attention to the man who does the work, as to the work itself.

To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.

Anything is easy to the man who sees.... The open eye of the open mind--that has more to do with real detective work than all the deduction and induction and analysis ever devised.

One doesn't need to know the artist's private intentions. The work tells all.

Paintings are but research and experiment. I never do a painting as a work of art. All of them are researches. I search constantly and there is a logical sequence in all this research.

Look around at day-to-day life for ideas, and it finds its way into your work.

I usually have pretty good intuition on projects that I work on.

The reality of things going on around me is more interesting than the fantasies of the world I work in.

A mate of mine told me recently, 'It's the first time I've seen you work, Worthington.' I thought that was quite funny, but he was right.

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.

In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.

Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime's work, but it's worth the effort.

How do I work? I grope.

Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work.

I have an innate instinct for knowing what's going to work.

Whenever I work on a part, I look at the world through the filter of the character and I pick things they might use through my observations of real life.