Mean Quote by Ian Hamilton Finlay

Sometimes I think I shouldn't explain much about my work because people will just feel what they feel when they see it. They'll love…

— Jose Parla

Unfortunately, you're helpless when people interpret your work wrongly. There are simply people who can't or won't understand or accept what you're trying to…

— Michael Haneke

When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.

— Yoko Ono

You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And if you don't give them that, if you keep…

— Jim Henson

However, some of my work is very subtle, and one should expect very subtle reactions to it.

— Jim Hodges

I think my work is very difficult to understand. Sometimes people do and sometimes they don't. I can't do much about that.

— Isa Genzken

I don't know about understood. I think that unless you are forced to understand - unless it is an issue of yours - you…

— Carrie Fisher

Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.

— Alain de Botton

However, I don't feel the world is looking over my shoulder when I am working - I never think about this at all. What…

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

I think that my work is easy to understand because I am not a thinker, I am not a... How can I put it?…

— Sharon Olds

I think of my work as very polarizing; either people really do like it and are touched by it or they really don't get…

— Joyce Tenneson

You will notice that the work is simple obedience. It is not complicated things, it is not fancy things or getting great spiritual manifestations.…

— Henry B. Eyring