Quotes About Insight

When you want to understand something you stand in front of it, alone, without help: all the past in the world is of no use.

My odd feelings of the other week seem to me quite ridiculous today: I can no longer enter into them.

Pero en el seno mismo de ese éxtasis, acababa de aparecer algo nuevo: yo comprendía la Náusea, la poesía.

Ice-T was just a pleasure to work with. He was a smart gentleman.

To be able to see the flaws in your own work is a gift.

The best way to know people is to work with them.

State what you actually see in someone's work first: objects/space/color/directional flow - then content. Interpret.

I feel that the work that I have done in the comedy arena, is priceless in terms of what I learned, timing, everything that these incredibly talented performers were generous enough in teaching me.

I am - since I was a child - curious about everything. I like to look at how things work and why people are the way they are.

When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.

It's a good idea to pay attention to the world and try to understand how it works rather than how you would like it to work.

When I work I always find something.

Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind.

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

You have to understand how the human eye behaves when it views a scene for the first time. Work with that knowledge, and your paintings will have more drama and will evoke strong reactions.

Give me a man with a good allowance of nose,... when I want any good head-work done I choose a man - provided his education has been suitable - with a long nose.

It is commonly the case with technologies that you can get the best insight about how they work by watching them fail.

I have wisdom of a 60-year-old. Also it takes a lot for me to respect a person, so when a person has a body of work behind him, it draws my respect.

I think that my work is easy to understand because I am not a thinker, I am not a... How can I put it? I write the way I perceive, I guess.

Wait, wait, wait, wait. Don't try to write through it, to force it. Many do, but that won't work. Just wait, it will come.

With every movie I do and every day I go to work, my goal is not just to reach for difference, but also figure out how to look at world and characters in a different way.

People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do very useful work.

There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and life of each person who has known and loved it.

Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.