Quotes About Insight

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

Vipassana is the art of living. Not the art of escaping.

Art does not reflect what is seen, rather it makes the hidden visible.

The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.

This is what I think art is and what I demand of it: that it pull everyone in, that it show one person another's most intimate thoughts and feelings, that it throw open the window of the soul.

That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen.

The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.

Art is a way of recognizing oneself.

The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I talk, I reveal the situation...I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it.

Organized perception is what art is all about.

There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception.

You see what you know!

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.

Chess is the art of analysis.

Authentic marketing is not the art of selling what you make but knowing what to make!

Art is more to do with observation than invention.

Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to imagine.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.

All creation is in the art of seeing.

Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture and ourselves.

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

The Art of Seeing. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean, to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.