House Quote by Faith Ringgold

I think that has been a benefit to me because I think most people understand quilts and not a lot of people understand paintings.…

— Faith Ringgold

Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around…

— Pablo Picasso

Many persons feel art, some understand it; but few both feel and understand it.

— George Stillman Hillard

Everyone wants to understand art. Why don't we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers,…

— Pablo Picasso

Everything, even the most ordinary daily affair, is enriched by the lessons that can be gleaned from art...

— Michael Kimmelman

Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.

— Conor Oberst

But what is art other than revealing human nature?

— Marina Abramovic

Works of art are meant to be lived with and loved, and if we try to understand them, we should try to understand them…

— William H. Gass

But then people don't read literature in order to understand; they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensations which they…

— Aldous Huxley

Individuals have to find a place to experience a profundity of feeling, and art is a means to that.

— Ed Kowalczyk

Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.

— John Ruskin

Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.

— Karl Kraus