Art Quote by Henri Matisse

The painter doesn't try to reproduce the scene before him... he simplifies and eliminates until he knows exactly what stirred him, sets this down…

— David Milne

I want it to be more universal than that - like a painter doesn't have to explain his life story away to justify his…

— Beth Orton

A painter doesn't need any talent. In fact, it's better not to have it.

— Georg Baselitz

Things were sort of Bohemian in Montmartre - one lived, one painted, one was a painter - all that doesn't mean anything, fundamentally.

— Marcel Duchamp

Understanding things clearer now. Its hard facing the truth about someones character.

— Anonymous

We want to see ourselves as curious and open-minded and smart and understanding things in terms of context and nuance, but when someone tries…

— Jon Ronson

This book is pointing the way into it for people that see it as daunting or a mystery. Some people just do it, but…

— Sally Schneider

For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from things I…

— Plutarch

I think people understand things different when they get older. It’s not a question of getting soft, or seeing things in the gray areas…

— Jeff Lindsay

There are three kinds of minds: first those that attain insight and understanding of things by their own means, then those that recognize what…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many…

— Vincent Van Gogh

“Understanding how or why is very seldom as useful as understanding that things are. I am.”

— Robin Hobb