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You can't understand how strange it was to be a sculptor who exhibited photographs. (On exhibitions of his earthworks and land art pieces.)
— Dennis Oppenheim
Denigrating art you don't understand doesn't hurt the art - it reveals something about your willingness to learn.
— Seth Godin
Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.
— Henry Moore
I feel I understand Existence, or at least a minute part Of my existence, only through my art,
— Vladimir Nabokov
In Europe they understand that the arts are incredibly important both culturally and economically.
— Tina Weymouth
Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.
— Vincent Van Gogh
The primary purpose of the Museum is to help people enjoy, understand, and use the visual arts of our time.
— Alfred H. Barr Jr.
I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.
— Charles Rosin
Artists, as a rule, understand nothing about business, or, for some reason or other, they aren't allowed to understand anything about it.
— Robert Walser
The only art I'm interested in is the art I don't understand right away. If you understand it right away it really has no use except as nostalgia.
— Lawrence Weiner
Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
— W. Somerset Maugham
If you want to understand what's most important to a society, don't examine its art or literature, simply look at its biggest buildings.
— Joseph Campbell
His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.
— Victor Hugo
If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art.
— Eugene Ionesco
I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes.
— Jean Helion
Jazz is an art that takes decades to appreciate and understand.
— Jake Shimabukuro
The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art.
— Terence McKenna
Art. If you don't understand the roots of his suffering,
— Thich Nhat Hanh
People so often loose sight of the magic in life once they understand how it works.
— Thomas Rogal II
We have found a way to bring to millions of people an art that they can understand,
— Thomas Kinkade
Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.
— Walter Darby Bannard
I have a feeling that in art the need to understand and the need to communicate are one.
— Hedda Sterne
I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Those who desire only techniques will never understand this art. It is everything beyond that
— Masaaki Hatsumi
I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art.
— Jean-Francois Chevrier
Our aim is to take our art to the world and make people understand what it is to move.
— David Belle
On Writing About Nora HawksI write about a female character to try, in vain, to understand two things: the purpose of life, and women. — Dennis R. Miller
Music is the highest art and to those who understand, is the highest worship
— Swami Vivekananda
Only tyrannies understand the power of art.
— Ronald Harwood
Art is hard for a puritan to understand.
— Gunter Grass
Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.
— Lin Yutang
Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer; art is everything else.
— Donald Ervin Knuth
Quack: A boastful pretender to arts which he does not understand. A vain boastful pretender to physick; An artful, tricking practitioner in physick.
— Samuel Johnson
To practice kata is not to memorize an order. Find the katas that work for you, understand them, digest them & stick with them for life.
— Gichin Funakoshi
I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art.
— Santiago Calatrava
Critics have a job to do. I understand that. It's not just to criticize. They're trying to interpret art for the public.
— Paul Emsley
It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.
— Tom Stoppard
Try and make them understand that while artists can recycle their suffering in their art, I didn't know what to do with mine.
— Viola Di Grado
I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either.
— Damien Hirst
Many persons feel art, some understand it; but few both feel and understand it.
— George Stillman Hillard
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
— Claude Monet
Great art is difficult," Caleb said. After a few moments, he said, "But I don't understand why it has to be so difficult sometimes.
— Kevin Wilson
I'm an atheist, but I believe in art. I go to galleries like my mother went to church. It helps me understand the way I live.
— Sarah Thornton
A strong work of art really leaves people speechless. They feel a little angry because they don't understand it.
— Michael Heizer
I am bothered by poems I don't understand.
— Joyce Rachelle
Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.
— Wynton Marsalis
I used language because I wanted to offer content that people - not necessarily art people - could understand.
— Jenny Holzer
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.
— Daniel Tammet
Art is an attempt to understand, yielding pleasure in the attempt whether or not we understand.
— Robert Breault
I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.
— Carl Sandburg
I would like the people that buy my clothes to understand that for me it's one small piece of art.
— Roberto Cavalli
A painting is worth a thousand confused art-gallery visitors.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
If you have not linked yourself to true emptiness, you will never understand the art of peace.
— Morihei Ueshiba
Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.
— Peter M. Brant
I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.
— Jeanette Winterson
I enjoy all mediums, and I have to say, music is the medium that first made me understand how powerful art could be.
— Jeff Koons
Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.
— Freddie Mercury
We understand not one another: I am too courtly, and thou art too cunning. At
— William Shakespeare
A painting is a universal language which everyone can read, understand, and interpret in his own way through the power of imagination.
— Debasish Mridha
I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
— Jackie Kennedy
Understand that the essence of martial arts is not the art itself, but what's hidden deep within yourself.
— Gogen Yamaguchi
Understand: we live in the world of a sad separation that began some five hundred years ago when art and science split apart.
— Robert Greene
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
— Marshall McLuhan
People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.
— Claude Monet
If you don't understand it, it's art.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
