Understanding Quotes - Page 14

• What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead.

  Pablo Picasso

  Wish, Poor, Painter

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• What's so astonishing about not understanding? There are so many things in art, beginning with art itself, that one doesn't understand. A painter doesn't see everything that he has put in his painting.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Painting, Painter

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.105, Univ of California Press

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• Reading is not just about learning to recognize and pronounce words, but also about how to hear and understand them... It is wise to remember that when we are reading letters never intended for us, any problems of understanding are ours and not theirs.

  Marcus Borg

  Wise, Reading, Letters

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• There's no one there to understand, there's just understanding, which flourishes in you as peace, joy and contentment.

  Mooji

  Joy, Contentment

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• The idea is to develop sympathy for your own confusion.

  Pema Chodron

  Ideas, Confusion

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.54, Shambhala Publications

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• Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to cover the loss of mystery.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Loss, Doe

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• Art is a means of expression that must be understood by everybody, everywhere. It grows out of the earth, the textures of our lives, and our experience.

  Rufino Tamayo

  Art, Mean, Expression

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• My goal is to make all my paintings clear and realistic, even more understandable than a photograph.

  E. J. Hughes

  Goal, Painting, Realistic

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• Can that which has cost the artist days, weeks, months and even years of reflection be understood in a flash by a dilettante?

  Robert Schumann

  Artist, Reflection, Years

  Robert Schumann (1983). “On Music and Musicians”, p.38, Univ of California Press

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• Do not attempt to accomplish greater results by a greater effort of your little understanding, but by a greater understanding of your little effort. The greater your understanding of the power within yourself, the less effort you need to make in order to achieve.

  Walter Russell

  Order, Effort, Littles

  THINK - IBM Lecture Series,

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• Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Education, Wise, Wisdom

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 86

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• None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Hope, Peace, Freedom

  1943 What America Means To Me, ch.4.

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• You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Fear, Judgement

  Leonardo Da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”

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• Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Ignorance, Ignorant, Understanding Yourself

  'Biographia Literaria' (1817) ch. 12

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• We are all, whether we know it or not, in search of a way to enrich, to drink during the fizz, to inhale deeper our gifts, in a desperation for some little understanding before death.

  May Sarton

  Littles, Before Death, Way

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• An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

  Ovid

  Fear, Medicine, Association

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• Tho' there be no such Thing as Chance in the World; our Ignorance of the real Ccause of any Event has the same Influence on the Understanding, and begets a like Species of Belief or Opinion.

  David Hume

  Real, Ignorance, Science

  An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding Section VI (p. 37)

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• Well, to find, not the meaning of life because I believe in mysteries, I believe that there is a mystery that goes far beyond our understanding.

  Paulo Coelho

  Believe, Meaning Of Life, Mystery

  "My dream was, and still is, to be a writer: Paulo Coelho". Interview with Tanu Talwar, zeenews.india.com. July 06, 2009.

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• We need to win something for the fans because they have been patient and very understanding and we owe them.

  Jamie Redknapp

  Winning, Fans, Needs

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• Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Art, Strong, Forever

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• Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Order, Mind, Humans

  Rudolf Arnheim (1974). “Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order”, p.1, Univ of California Press

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• I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Drawing, Trying, Fifty

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• Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

  Jonathan Swift

  Profound, Literature, Understood

  Jonathan Swift (2004). “A Modest Proposal and Other Prose”, p.57, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism.

  Carl Sagan

  Suicidal, Science, Long

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium”, p.176, Ballantine Books

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• In striving for the best, in losing onself in others, one is lifted above the common material furniture of life, above the gaudy trappings and encumbering paraphenalia... into the realm of peace which passeth understanding.

  Olympia Brown

  Furniture, Losing, Common

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