Quotes About Insight

Sometimes I can be a little ignorant.

When something comes to my brain, I don't ignore it. You never know what it's going to turn into.

If you have doubt about a person's humility or smarts, don't ignore it. More often than not, there is something causing that doubt.

I was ill, and everyone could see it but me.

Any great art is meant to illuminate the human condition.

Sometimes art helps illuminate science.

It's really about the work - if you are doing it for the right reasons - really to illuminate the human condition.

The human condition is the human condition, and what we try to do is illuminate the human condition.

The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.

That difficult place to put your finger on about the world - it needs to be illustrated.

I like working on stories where I can explore the darker corners of childhood without illustrations but with humor.

I'm fascinated with what an audience will take away from an image.

I grew up in a world where stories and images were made and told by men. So I know this world very well. I am moved by this world.

It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.

I wanted other people, not just Americans, to see - I wanted to take my images to a global stage. I wanted people to see what I was seeing, 'cause I thought it was really important to see.

I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.

I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.

She has no imagination and that means no compassion.

I don't want to compare myself to somebody like Fitzgerald or Hemingway, but I feel like, for some writers, going to a certain city, a certain place, is what kickstarts your imaginative process.

People are not as imaginative as they think they are.

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.

You can start imagining all kinds of things characters would feel, but you have to have a sense of whether those imaginings might be right.

When I'm composing a scene for the first time, I try to imitate my character. The less critical distance the better - particularly when they're acting badly.