It’s not like I’m Anti-China. I just think it’s rediculous that we allow them to do what they’re doing to this country, with the manipulation of the currency, that you write about and understand, and all of the other things that they do. -Donald Trump 2.28K
I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist. 655
You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself. 2.21K
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language. 911
People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it’s simply necessary to love. 788
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love. 677
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. 671
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand. 1.71K
Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason. 2.35K
As both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of religious belief that would, in my view, be compatible with science. 634
Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense; or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others. 895
Whole areas of knowledge and information have been defined into nonexistence because the system cannot know, understand, control, or measure them. 619
As a physician, I understand how important it is to collect data on people so we can understand what’s happening with them. I will be in the position to help enable that knowledge. 2.37K
The best wrestlers, whether it’s a Hulk Hogan or a Rey Mysterio, are the ones who have psychology and can understand this business. 2.51K
As a writer, I’m not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production. 588
The jewelry business is a very, very tough business – tougher than the computer business. You truly have to understand how to take care of your customers. 632
