Quotes About Understanding

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

When it's cold, water freezes into ice; when it's warm, ice melts into water. Similarly, when you are confused, essence freezes into mind; when you are enlightened, mind melts into essence.

I know what I like—I like art—and I like what I know.

Art is a way of expression that has to be understood by everyone, everywhere.

Mathematics is an art of human understanding.

The true mark of maturity is when someone hurts you and you try and understand their situation instead of hurting them back.

Art is what everyone knows it is.

Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.

For both art and the historical sciences are ways of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence is immediately brought into play.

She barely understands her dreams of belly button rings and other kind of things. Symbolic of change, but the thing that is strange, it that the changes occur, and now she's just a part of the herd.

A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor hes not alone in the way he feels about himself.

When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.

Art teaches us to see into things. Folk art and kitsch allow us to see outward from within things.

Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.

But what is art other than revealing human nature?

Art hath an enemy called ignorance.

First study the science, and then practice the art which is born of that science.

Art thou angry with him whose armpits stink? Art thou angry with him whose mouth smells foul?

Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.

Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.

The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see.

Why are we willing to accept a new mathematical formula we don't understand as the product of a brilliant mind, while rejecting a new art form we don't understand as the product of a deranged mind?

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.