Quotes About Understanding

The greatest art is philosophy.

Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.

I try to be patient. I feel like the point of art is to go down within yourself and to pop up into other people. If you're lucky, all of a sudden you're like, "whoop!" You're in other people.

art, n. This word has no definition.

Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance .

Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.

Just because people can express themselves through their art doesn't mean they are great communicators in person.

Art does not explain.

We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.

I feel like really thinking about art and really appreciating it and learning the language of it just makes you more of a connoisseur. I believe that.

It takes years of building that experience as a filmmaker, as well as physically. You have to have a high level understanding of martial arts.

Anyone who presumes to teach art has no understanding of it.

As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.

The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.

The ultimate politeness in art consists of speaking only to those who are able to uncover and measure its relationships. Anything else is symbolic, and symbolism is merely transcendental imagery.

I enjoy all mediums, and I have to say, music is the medium that first made me understand how powerful art could be.

As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture.

He who possesses science and art, Possesses religion as well; He who possesses neither of these, Had better have religion.

In sales, as in medicine, a prescription before diagnosis is a mistake in the arts.

Common observation and a plain understanding is the source of all art.

My study of religion, which I regard in many ways as an art form, is a search for meaning.

Art curates compassion. Art to me breaks down walls and allows us to step into somebody else's shoes.

I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.

Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.