Quotes About Insight

A photograph is usually looked at- seldom looked into.

linear brains can't curve a thought.

Your most important gear is your eye, heart and soul.

The material's out there, a calm lake waiting for us to dive in.

Art builds upon art, builds upon art...nothing is purely original. We're all inspired by something...or someone. It's a never-ending chain of ideas...and it's magical.

Sometimes, when inspiration runs dry, I drink classical music until my words spill out.

The best thing about photography: it changes your point of view.

Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood.

I have found my way, step by step, proceeding from touch points that have emerged, some through conscious choice and some through dream state discovery.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see.

Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer.

Art does not reproduce what is visible, it makes things visible.

My business is to paint what I see, not what I know is there.

art is a mode of stalking

Everything is art and it's part of the painting. (To talk with somebody it's art, to understand a language is art, to understand a book is art, to understand somebody is art...)

Learn about art, Captain. When you understand a species' art, you understand that species.

My father said that artists see the world differently than normal people. I see a tree where you mights see a collection of lines, shapes, and shadows.

Who knows when a trenchant line becomes a human face?

A brilliant mind was first a listener that observed the actions of the people that loved and hated them, then found a way to express their feelings, when real communication was lost.

The photographer does the world a great disservice when he leaves his camera at home.

The photographer does the world a great disservice when she leaves her camera at home.

Artists are not in delusion, they only recreate the hidden side

Don't keep your Muse locked up in the closet. Set them free to dance across the page and what they create will be a masterpiece.