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• Talks on art are almost useless. The work which goes to bring progress in one's own subject is sufficient compensation for the incomprehension of imbeciles.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Progress, Useless

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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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• A fat lot of good it would do if I told you that Titian's courtesans make you want to caress them. Some day you'll see the Titians for yourself, and if they have no effect on you, then you don't understand the first thing about painting. And I wouldn't be able to help you.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Able, Firsts, Want

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• 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

  Art, Opposites, Progress

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• I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating analogies. Almost every work of art is an analogy.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Creating, Trying

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Hate, War

  "The Plague". Book by Albert Camus, 1947.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There is no hospitality like understanding.

  Vanna Bonta

  Hospitality

  "Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel". Book by Vanna Bonta, June 1995.

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• We all have families who are longing for peace in the world and an end to the suffering caused by poverty, disease, and hunger. Untold numbers of our friends, our neighbors, our parents, and our children, are hoping that there is more understanding, more generosity, more genuine friendship, and more caring among people of all faiths and cultures.

  John Conyers

  Family, Children, Caring

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• In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.

  J. William Fulbright

  Long, People, History

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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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• 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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• 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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