Quotes About Insight

When I got my first loft, I still didn't know what I was going to paint... There were long stretches when I just sat there and thought without interruption.

I paint things as they are. I don't comment.

But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.

I paint as a way of looking for myself in the world.

It's hard for me to find people to paint. There has got to be something about them that only I can see.

There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.

If I was painting or writing, I wouldn't veer away from things because they seemed unsavoury to me. So as an actor, I kind of think the same way. I should do things that are different and interesting and shed light on the craziness of the world.

We try to buy from living artists because we love to understand why they are painting or sculpting and get into their minds.

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

The people I feel inspired around draw pictures, they make paintings.

Sometimes the songs just come to me. I don't sit down to write like you'd sit down to make a pair of boots.

You never really know baseball until you put on a pair of cleats and get out and play it; and if you play for five years, you still don't really know what it's about.

I fought against Palestinians. I saw them.

Have you ever had that moment when you looked back on something and said, 'Well, gosh, that seems obvious now... why didn't I see it then?' I like to call this the Face Palm Epiphany. Oh, hindsight, you magical, humbling thing.

I don't like to have to pan for gold when I read.

I was on a panel with Marshall McLuhan in Canada. Someone says, 'Mr. McLuhan, I read your book, and I disagree with you.' And he says, 'Oh, you read my book? Then you only know half the story.'

I have oft-times been besought, by divers gentlemen, to set down on paper what I have beheld through my newly invented microscopia, but I have generally declined.

Books arrive in my head all at once, and then it becomes an 18-month process of getting it all down on paper.

I can see a scene in my head, and when I try to get it down in words on paper, the words are clunky; the scene is not coming across right. So frustrating. And there are days where it keeps flowing. Open the floodgates, and there it is. Pages and pages coming. Where the hell does this all come from? I don't know.

I really like 'This Side of Paradise' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I think it's a cool description of a character.

I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.

Education is paramount in light of so many things that are out there.

There's something about being a parent that has, I think, made me a better comedian.

Things parents say to children are oftentimes not heard, but in some cases you pick up on things that your parent would like to see you have done.