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Buying art is not understanding art. -- Anselm Kiefer
Art is difficult. It's not entertainment. There are only a few people who can say something about art - it's very restricted. When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not. Buying art is not understanding art. -- Anselm Kiefer
I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally. -- David Rockefeller
Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings. -- Vicki Baum
The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life. -- Ralph Ellison
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 must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind. -- Rockwell Kent
Country music, the music of the white rural working class, has often been mocked by elitists whose understanding of power and art was shaped at expensive private schools. -- Will Shetterly
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. -- Minnie Maddern Fiske
Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is. -- Amiri Baraka
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
Standards wars involve lots of variables, and understanding them often seems more an art than a science. They generally involve just two big players, and end in a winner-take-all situation. -- James Surowiecki
I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art. -- Laurance Rockefeller
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
There's some people who are not understanding what Limp Bizkit is about. But, then again, who am I to tell people what they can use art for or how they can interpret it? -- Fred Durst
What really shifted my understanding of my potential placement in the world of art is when I had a chance to choreograph a show for... It was just this incredible production with all these masters. -- Morley
Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people - more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true - in certain rare, isolated cases. -- Paul Auster
Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary. -- William Adams
It's my belief that cooking is a craft. I think that you can push it into the realm of art, but it starts with craft. It starts with an understanding of materials. It starts with an understanding of where foods are grown. -- Tom Colicchio
The system is the work of art; the visual work of art is the proof of the System. The visual aspect can't be understood without understanding the system. It isn't what it looks like but what it is that is of basic importance. -- Sol LeWitt
The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding. -- Edward Steichen
Mathematics is an art of human understanding. -- William Thurston
Art is not about understanding, itâ??s about experience. -- Antony Gormley
Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world, -- Dana Gioia
Anyone who presumes to teach art has no understanding of it. -- Eleanora Duse
Above all, it is a matter of loving art, not understanding it. -- Fernand Leger
The art of moving forward lies in understanding what to leave behind. -- Seth
Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive. -- Archibald MacLeish
Common observation and a plain understanding is the source of all art. -- Joshua Reynolds
Equestrian art is the perfect understanding and harmony between horse and rider. -- Nuno Oliveira
Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men. -- Robert Henri
Art is not some sort of guideline for understanding. It's a thing unto itself. -- Andrey Zvyagintsev
Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood. -- Robert Rauschenberg
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Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding. -- Hermann Hesse
Magick is the Science of understanding oneself and one's conditions. It is the Art of applying that understanding in action. -- Aleister Crowley
The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part. -- Franz Grillparzer
By translating their inner turmoil or understanding into art, artists challenge the accepted notions of reality and create new ones. -- Wes Nisker
The appreciation of the merits of art of the emotions it conveys depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life... -- Leo Tolstoy
Art makes better humans, art is necessary in understanding the world and art makes people happy. Undeniably, art is not optional. -- Nathan Sawaya
I believe that every human being has an understanding of art. What is separating us is smaller than what is unifying us. -- Thomas Hirschhorn
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
Much modern art is, at first sight, unnerving... in the contemporary world, we have come to expect instant response and immediate understanding. -- Nicholas Serota
The beginning of art is not reason. It is the buried treasure of the unconscious...that unconscious which has more understanding than our lucidity. -- Edgard Varese
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
This is a very general understanding of art in China, that being an artist can make you money and turn you into a star. -- Ai Weiwei
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
'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
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
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
Any work of art, provided it springs from a sincere motivation to further understanding between people, is an act of faith and therefore is an act of love. -- Truman Capote
The function of Art is to imitate Nature in her manner of operation. Our understanding of her manner of operation&Rdquo; changes according to advances in the sciences. -- John Cage
Art is the supreme communicator of diverse cultures and ideas in a common frame of understanding, a virtual bridge across time. It is also the universal link into genius. -- Edward J. Fraughton
The fact that the work is affirmed by the Museum of Contemporary Art I think sends continued signals that this is worth paying attention to, looking at, and understanding. -- Theaster Gates
Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels. -- Roger Ebert

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