Quotes About Understanding

Art speaks its own language-soul to soul, heart to heart.

Art isn't about drawing; it's about learning to see. What organization doesn't need this ability?

Lord, who art always the same, give that I know myself, give that I know Thee.

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

The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.

I read a book called The Art of Loving. A lot of things seemed clear while I was reading it but afterwards I went back to being more or less the same.

Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.

And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.

To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.

Those who still think that listening isn't an art should see if they can do it half as well.

An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.

When you understand a species' art, you understand that species.

The art of acting is to be other than what you are.

What a teacher needs to know about psychology "might almost be written on the palm of one's hand."

I'm quite obsessed with the idea of nailing the girl friendship. It's such an art, so delicate.

Andy Warhol: I think everybody should like everybody. Gene Swenson: Is that what Pop Art is all about? Andy Warhol: Yes, it's liking things.

Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world.

Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern art.

I can never fathom it when people say things like "I can't understand abstract art!" Or: "Abstract art is junk!" Or: "Abstract art isn't as valid as realism!"

It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered ... that we are behind our age.... sympathy as a fine art is backward in the growth of progress.

Music and acting are the same thing: you must understand that art is only the search, not the final form.

Only through apprehending, by means of present-day creations, how art is created, can the creations of other periods be genuinely appreciated.

Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding.

The art is just really mysterious. If I understood it more, maybe I would write more.