Understanding is an art...not everyone is an artist.

We don't all dig Shakespeare uniformly, or even 'Little Red Riding Hood.' The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's…

— Ralph Ellison

“The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity.”

— Ralph Ellison

I believe that every human being has an understanding of art. What is separating us is smaller than what is unifying us.

— Thomas Hirschhorn

No-one who has a real understanding of the art of painting attaches any importance to what we call the subject of a picture -…

— Roger Fry

Buying art is not understanding art.

— Anselm Kiefer

'Understanding' art is like having a sense of humour - if you don't have one, no amount of explanation is going to make you…

— Michael Craig-Martin

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

In my own version of the idea of 'what art wants,' the end and fulfillment of the history of art is the philosophical understanding…

— Anonymous

“...there is no true understanding of any art without some knowledge of its philosophy. Only then does its meaning come clear.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

By translating their inner turmoil or understanding into art, artists challenge the accepted notions of reality and create new ones.

— Wes Nisker

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 difficult. It's not entertainment. There are only a few people who can say something about art - it's very restricted. When I…

— Anselm Kiefer

In our time, we have become too interested in the artist and his or her character and experience as a way of understanding art.…

— Salman Rushdie

“Nature alone can lead to the understanding of art, just as art brings us back to nature with greater awarness. It is the source…

— Eugene Carriere

Perhaps there is no other way of reaching some understanding of being than through art? Writers themselves don't analyze what they do; to analyze…

— Nadine Gordimer