Quotes About Insight

I've learnt so much from every film and every director - a new perspective, a greater appreciation of the art.

The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls 'inspiration.'

Thou art figured blind, and yet we borrow our best sight from thee.

The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see.

Sometimes you learn about the personality of your favorite artist, and you like their art a little less, because it doesn't jibe with what you had envisioned.

Art makes something a lot more visible or audible.

Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

What's so incredibly amusing with photography is that while seemingly an art of the surface, it catches things I haven't even noticed. And it pains me not to have seen things in all their depth.

The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems.

An inventor is one who can see the applicability of means to supply demand five years before it is obvious to those skilled in the art.

About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.

Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own subject.

Art consists in making others feel what we feel.

It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize upon superficial things only is to degenerate into mediocrity and obscurity.

To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.

Creative expression and visual comprehension are really the handmaidens of art. One cannot thrive without the other.

You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an art.

Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.

The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.

A picture might be worth a thousand words but a good sentence is worth a thousand windows

If a woman decides she likes me, it would behoove her to take into consideration that my art has had a strong influence on the type of person I am.

True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind.

A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have never been out of sight of land.