Quotes About Insight

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

It's easy to listen to what you are taught. But it's difficult to find what you have within yourself and master it as yor own.

"Art is the ability to turn one's gaze to the world of oblivion." This is the way in which I understand art at fundamental level.

Mathematics is an art of human understanding.

Sight is a faculty; seeing is an art.

Kunst gibt nicht das Sichtbare wieder, sondern macht sichtbar. Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes visible.

I think artists almost always end up turning to what's around them, what's in their environment or outside their window.

I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings.

When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.

If you haven't read Alan Fletcher's The Art of Looking Sideways you should be arrested for calling yourself a Designer

Art is supposed to punch you in the brain, and it's supposed to stay punched.

The arts often realize human truths well before other branches of human endeavor.

An artist should have more than two eyes.

The most important lesson I received from Conceptual art consisted in the recording of simple and obvious things, and viewing them under a whole new light.

Art teaches us to see into things. Folk art and kitsch allow us to see outward from within things.

Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.

It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.

But what is art other than revealing human nature?

Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water.

We know great art by its effect on us. If we are prepared to look without preconceptions, without defenses, without haste, then art will change us.

What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.

Every piece of art is a mirror and serves the function of reflectivity to expose to you and reveal to you more of who you are.

The highest art of professional management requires the literal ability to 'smell' a 'real fact' from all others.