Quotes About Understanding

I have not intended to denigrate or hurt the beliefs of anyone through my art.

Art should communicate with as many people as possible.

Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart grasp.

The practice of listening is one of the most mysterious, luminous, and challenging art forms on Earth.

Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.

People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.

In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.

It is one of the ironies of biographical art that some details are more relevant than others, and many details have no relevance at all.

Veteran art creates a meeting place between veterans and civilians, or simply between veterans with different experiences.

In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by working with the real can you get closer to the ideal.

Lexicography is a chastening as well as an illuminating and fascinating art.

That's something lacking in a lot of modern-day families - just talking. It's almost a lost art form.

Art forms render ideas accessible to readers who could not receive those insights in any other format.

We need to regain the art of civil discourse and more practically, I don't think you change anyone's mind by calling them names.

We have found a way to bring to millions of people an art that they can understand.

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art.

Poetry is the only art people haven't learned to consume like soup.

By translating their inner turmoil or understanding into art, artists challenge the accepted notions of reality and create new ones.

Without English art, I never would have understood myself, my own family, or the New England world I lived in.

Shutting one's eyes is an art, my dear. I suppose there's no use trying to make you see that - but that's the only way one can stay married.

Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye....

..it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don't know the artistic side of a painting.

Edsel is the artist in our family. Art is something I know nothing about.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.