I think all good architecture should challenge you, make you start asking questions. You don't have to understand it. You may not like it. That's OK.
Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
There are so many people who want to be the next person on 'Home and Away,' or they just want to be on the cover of a magazine, and they don't really understand the craft. They're not interested in theatre, they're not interested in the art.
I enjoy all mediums, and I have to say, music is the medium that first made me understand how powerful art could be.
Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that's the beauty of art: to question and to ask, to understand the deeper meaning after two or three or four listenings.
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.
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
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.
The whole thrust of modern art, as far as I understand it, is expanding the role of the artist as a kind of esthetician, someone who actually spends his time, is trained in a way to deal with qualities.
I don’t understand open relationships. My relationship is like a normal business at 5:01 pm: very much closed.
I saw a dead bird flying through a broken sky. I heard it, and it said, "The world will never understand.
See, it's not that I'm jealous of others. I just don't understand why they can be happy and I can't.
Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.
...there is no better time to examine and understand one’s selfhood than when it is dissected and hurtling through darkness.
When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding.
I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
I understand why she did all those things, but that doesn't mean we aren't still broken.
Only by thinking I had freedom had I come to understand how imprisoned I was.
Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.
What I came to understand is that change is not a choice, not for a species of plant, not for me. It happens, and you are different.
Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.
