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Quotes About Insight

I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
~ Laurance Rockefeller
Journalism has become the art of "intelligent anticipation of events."
~ Mahatma Gandhi
There's nothing like drawing a thing to make you really see it.
~ Margaret Atwood
Comedy is a noble art.
~ Margaret Cho
Laugh, if thou art wise.
~ Martial
Art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.
~ Martin Firrell
Like a guide dog, paintings help you see.
~ Martin Mull
Master Sigmund Freud once said that wherever I go, I find a poet has been there before me. This is simply because science either walks or runs but art has wings to fly!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Art provides us with clues about how to live our own lives more fully... art becomes our entree to the sublime.
~ Michael Kimmelman
In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
I stood in this unsheltered place, 'til I could see the face behind the face.
~ Peter Gabriel
Reason! how many eyes hast thou to see evils, and how dim, nay, blind, thou art in preventing them.
~ Philip Sidney
The eye is the best of artists.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want to know about what's good in art, you should talk to an artist.
~ Robert Barry
No art goes unmediated by other art.
~ Robert Hughes
Art forms render ideas accessible to readers who could not receive those insights in any other format.
~ Sara Maitland
Sometimes a person has to stop talking about art for a moment and take a look around.
~ Sarah Schulman
Art opens the fishiest eye . . .
~ Sheridan Hay
The works of the great artists are silent books of eternal truths.
~ Stefan Zweig
Self-exposure is commendable in art only when it is of a quality and complexity that allows other people to learn about themselves from it.
~ Susan Sontag
Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art.
~ Tucker Max
It's exciting to consider how art, in its ability to reveal, can be ahead of the artist.
~ Vivek Shraya
Psychology ought certainly to give the teacher radical help.
~ William James
Movement is knowledge. Art is perception
~ Armin Houman