Understanding Art Quotes
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Above all, it is a matter of loving art, not understanding it.
— Fernand Leger
I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.
— David Rockefeller
If you know the why, you can live any how.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Common observation and a plain understanding is the source of all art.
— Joshua Reynolds
Anyone who presumes to teach art has no understanding of it.
— Eleanora Duse
Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.
— Archibald MacLeish
Sir Joshua Reynolds, said Jonathan, once alluded to 'common observation and a plain understanding' as the source of all art.
— Charles Williams
The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.
— Ralph Ellison
Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding.
— Hermann Hesse
Art makes better humans, art is necessary in understanding the world and art makes people happy. Undeniably, art is not optional.
— Nathan Sawaya
For both art and the historical sciences are modes of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence comes directly into play.
— Hans-Georg Gadamer
People so often loose sight of the magic in life once they understand how it works.
— Thomas Rogal II
The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.
— Franz Grillparzer
I am bothered by poems I don't understand.
— Joyce Rachelle
And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.
— Wendell Pierce
If you don't understand it, it's art.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
Buying art is not understanding art.
— Anselm Kiefer
We must rebuild organic communities, where people can come together and have analogue conversations and share stories, art, music and emotions.
— Bryant McGill
Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.
— Robert Rauschenberg
The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.
— Andre Maurois
Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.
— Vicki Baum
Art is not about understanding, it's about experience.
— Antony Gormley
Art is not some sort of guideline for understanding. It's a thing unto itself.
— Andrey Zvyagintsev
'Understanding' art is like having a sense of humour - if you don't have one, no amount of explanation is going to make you laugh.
— Michael Craig-Martin
There is no true understanding of any art without some knowledge of its philosophy. Only then does its meaning come clear.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.
— Steve Prefontaine
Art should take what is complex and render it simply. It takes a lot of skill, human understanding, stamina, courage, energy, and heart to do that.
— Anna Deavere Smith
The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.
— Louis L'Amour
How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true?
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
What is Christian in art does not lie in the theme but in the spirit of it, in its wisdom and the understanding of reality it reflects.
— Hans Rookmaaker
Magick is the Science of understanding oneself and one's conditions. It is the Art of applying that understanding in action.
— Aleister Crowley
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
— Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle
A high self-esteem having artist works hard to be understood. A low self-esteem having artist works hard to be agreed with.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Mathematics is an art of human understanding.
— William Thurston
Much modern art is, at first sight, unnerving ... in the contemporary world, we have come to expect instant response and immediate understanding.
— Nicholas Serota
Our one goal is to give the world a taste of peace, friendship and understanding. Through the visual arts, the art of celebration of life.
— Steven Spielberg
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
To the soul, memory is more important than planning, art more compelling than reason, and love more fulfilling than understanding.
— Thomas Moore
