Immediate Understanding Quotes

A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter.

A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is.

Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.

Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded.

If you want to understand what a watermelon is, you take a watermelon, get a knife, and cut the watermelon. Then you put a slice in your mouth. Boom! YOUR experience!

A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.

As soon as we showcased the Wii in 2006, people immediately understood. At that E3 show, I was up on the stage with other Nintendo staff playing Wii Tennis, and I could hear the excitement behind me.

Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.

There's something immediate about the experience of reading a poem. It makes sense in my own mind, but I'm trying to figure out a way to articulate it... It's like looking at a painting: you're able to take in the totality of the work all at once, and so processing whatever information that painting is giving you is almost secondary to simply apprehending what's in front of you.

When I was in South Africa, I was meeting with people who never heard of Lego bricks. And yet, when I was like, 'Here they are,' they immediately got it. They saw the appeal, were snapping bricks and creating their little creations right there immediately.

Truth is something which you must see immediately — and to see something clearly you must give your heart and your mind and your whole being to it immediately.

With a live music performance, the ideas of the richness and complexity of our inner and outer worlds - the emotional world and the external world, like the planets, the weather, and the universe are really washing over you. Your body feels the intention more than your mind analyzing intellectually too much. I've always tried to do this in my music, to make it very direct and bodily, so that it communicates itself immediately, even to someone without prior knowledge of it.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood.

I would then say that there are two kinds of feeling. The first is to feel in the sense of concentrating your emotions on something immediately available for your understanding: you make your understanding out of the emotions you have about it. The second is to feel in the sense of being affected without trying to understand: something is felt, you do not know what, and it is more important to feel it than to try to understand it, since once you try to understand it you no longer feel it.