Quotes About Understanding

So rather than someone coming to my stu- dio and saying, like, "Thank you for your time. I'll see you later," and me not knowing why they don't like my work, I understand now why they don't like it.

You never know people, do you? You can work with 'em for twenty years; you don't know 'em at all.

There are only those you can live with, and those you can work to change.

I think people have certain preconceived notions of certain people that they've never met. And so, that's sort of what I try to work from.

When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much as I would have liked. And when I grew up, I understood why.

You have to bring books to explain your work.

It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work.

It takes me a long time to understand my work myself, so I name them in the order that they're created.

Whenever you try and simplify how people speak, it's just hard to squish them into a simple rule. Language doesn't work that way.

Everyone has dated or been with a person who is obsessed with their work, and it's immensely frustrating. You're like, "I'm right here! I'm a person! I'm interesting, too!"

I always had to rely on humor and sarcasm. And when I started having kids, that doesn't work with kids. Kids don't understand sarcasm, and they certainly don't understand my humor.

I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better.

Do not make them (people) weary at their work. If you do not make them weary, they will not be weary of you.

Arguing with a man doesn't work.

I've always seen my work as trying to make the connection with men who no one really spends time with.

Men have just come up to me and asked for my number right away. That doesn't work. You have to know somebody and have a conversation.

Two of my favorite artists are Josh Smith and Joe Bradley. But I argued against them for years, until I grew to love them and felt stupid for my immediate reaction towards their work.

Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone.

To sew is to pray. Men don't understand this. They see the whole but they don't see the stitches. They don't see the speech of the creator in the work of the needle.

As long as you're getting along, it's nice to work with someone you know well.

Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?

A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is.

We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.

The best essays come from the moment in which people really need to work something out.