Quotes About Insight

I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.

It is quite possible--overwhelmingly probable, one might guess--that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology

Art isn't about drawing; it's about learning to see. What organization doesn't need this ability?

Seeing well transforms mere existence into the art of living.

And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.

It's not the medium, but the quality of perception and expression, that determines the significance of art.

An art machine is a system whose parts when put in motion act upon each other in such a way as to cause you to see things differently

Science and art have in common intense seeing, the wide-eyed observing that generates empirical information.

Science is our century's art.

Not many people realise this, but you don't actually learn anything at art college any more; however, you do have to go there to find that out.

The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.

What a teacher needs to know about psychology "might almost be written on the palm of one's hand."

Grey has no agenda. . . . Grey has the ability, that no other colour has, to make the invisible visible.

All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to truth.

I view art as an inspirational tool.

All art is someone trying to tell you something.

Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world.

Only through apprehending, by means of present-day creations, how art is created, can the creations of other periods be genuinely appreciated.

Art is a point of view, and a genius way of looking at things.

... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness

I think that's what all art is for - for people to express what it is to be human. That's the purpose of it.

Art is only abstract when you look the other way.

The greatest art is philosophy.

The art is in preparing the content for optimal human consumption. The data doesn't just talk back to you. You collect, you analyze, you tell stories.