Unconventional Insight Quotes

Fans don't lie. They just tell you what they really think, and they see details that even people in fashion don't.

You have to be able to observe life as if you were a camera all the time, constantly looking at light and the way that things are placed and the way people hold themselves. You need the ability to see something in someone or something that no one else really sees and be able to bring that to light. Basically, you have to be an obsessive crazy person.

The dreamer's untamed eye sees beyond the illusions to the heart of what is real.

Just as a wise man can say something foolish, a fool can say something wise.

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.

Being ignored is a great privilege. That is how I think I learned to see what others do not see and to react to situations differently. I simply looked at the world, not really prepared for anything.

For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.

Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have.

The heroes and discoverers have found true more than was previously believed, only when they were expecting and dreaming of something more than their contemporaries dreamed of, or even themselves discovered, that is, when they were in a frame of mind fitted to behold the truth. Referred to the world's standard, they are always insane. Even savages have indirectly surmised as much.

An outsider's point of view is always handy.

The wisest man may be a blind father.

Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality of the unconquered world may enter.

A curiously interested observer sees a great deal, a scientifically interested observer is worthy of all honor, and anxiously interested observer sees what others do not see, but a crazy observer sees perhaps the most, his observation is more intense and more persistent, just as the senses of certain animals are sharper than those of man.

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.