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Quotes About Understanding

Wrestling is an art form. I don't worry about those who don't get it; I worry about satisfying those who do.
~ Paul Heyman
One eye sees, the other feels.
~ Paul Klee
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
~ Will Durant
Vipassana is the art of living. Not the art of escaping.
~ S. N. Goenka
I wanted to create something that people could relate to without having read a book about it beforehand.
~ Cindy Sherman
The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I talk, I reveal the situation...I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
~ Donald Knuth
There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
You see what you know!
~ Frank Stella
Buying art is not understanding art.
~ Anselm Kiefer
There's some people who are not understanding what Limp Bizkit is about. But, then again, who am I to tell people what they can use art for or how they can interpret it?
~ Fred Durst
The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.
~ Elliot W. Eisner
Art is not there simply to be understood. ... It is more the sense of an indication or suggestion.
~ Joseph Beuys
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
~ Ansel Adams
The art of reading is to skip judiciously.
~ Alexander Hamilton
Art is an international language, understood by all.
~ Igor Babailov
I used language because I wanted to offer content that people - not necessarily art people - could understand.
~ Jenny Holzer
I truly believe that our major social ills would disappear if we just spent our lives perfecting the art of connecting with each other.
~ Sean Stephenson
Ninety percent of the art of living consists of getting along with people you cannot stand.
~ Samuel Goldwyn
Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.
~ Tristan Tzara
I don't think biology is replacing the feeling experienced through art. Biology is capable of giving additional insights. It's a parallel, not a substitutive process.
~ Eric Kandel
Above all, it is a matter of loving art, not understanding it.
~ Fernand Leger
Equestrian art is the perfect understanding and harmony between horse and rider.
~ Nuno Oliveira