Misunderstood Quote by Matthew Collings Download Open image “The most painful thing for me is to be misunderstood.” — Matthew Collings ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Misunderstood Painful Painful things Understanding
Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
What hurts the most is being misunderstood. They tell me that's an Aquarian trait - that that's the thing we don't like. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Just feeling misunderstood sometimes, I guess, has been my biggest downfall. — Goldie Copy Share Image
I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Use to hate being misunderstood but finally I realize it's best to be misunderstood than understood. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think I have a deep-seated fear of being misunderstood. Or being misjudged. — Harriet Walter Copy Share Image
Being misunderstood! It's like no matter how you may express what you're feeling, Poeple still won't understand! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Until the late 1970s there'd either be only black or white in the paintings or if there were colours it would be a small… — Matthew Collings Copy Share Image
The whole idea of ideas in art is useless. Only have ideas about form. — Matthew Collings Copy Share Image
Colour can be the true main thing in art that is widely valued – even valued by the maker of the art – for other meanings. — Matthew Collings Copy Share Image
It was as if he (Sigmar Polke) painted his imagery in a highly wrought way, instead of a calculatedly dumb way, or mechanical way,… — Matthew Collings Copy Share Image
What is painting today? It's a discontinued thing, discontinued from anything serious that happened in the past. — Matthew Collings Copy Share Image
Without rules you can't have anything, but you don't want to just be pedantic or obsessive. The painting is finished when it's working. The… — Matthew Collings Copy Share Image
Artists don't often know much about writing... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art. — Matthew Collings Copy Share Image
Art has knowledge and skills, and to come to know them is to be implicitly against a culture that is against knowledge - today's… — Matthew Collings Copy Share Image
The art world is now a slave of mass culture. We have a sound-bite culture and so we have sound-bite art. You look at… — Matthew Collings Copy Share Image
I think with art you have to do a bit of transforming of the subject to make the art worth having. — Matthew Collings Copy Share Image
Failure's relative. I've always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something's not right about that. It's how you treat failure, too. There's something to learn from it. I've had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures: What kind of failure was it? A failure because it's misunderstood by others? A… — Al Pacino Copy Share
The problem with merely writing so that you can be understood is that the wrong people, in advancing their agendas, are only too ready… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
Tell me that I misunderstood a joke, but don't tell me that my choice of cravat is wrong. — David Niven Copy Share Image
Teenagers: The most misunderstood people on earth. Treated like children and expected to act like adults. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was so unsuccessful for so long. I was used to the word no. I was used to you're not good enough or not quite there or you need to fix this about you. So I am honestly walking in faith every single day that I am going to be able to handle whatever God has for me. I am… — Tamar Braxton Copy Share
I love Crowley for being an audacious man at certain point in time. I think he's greatly misunderstood. He was a good guy, but… — Johan Renck Copy Share Image
I always feel like I've been slightly misunderstood. As a woman, you get judged for appearances or things like that I don't really care… — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
Nothing can prepare you for living or working with a sociopathic serial bully. It is the most devastating, draining, misunderstood, and ultimately futile experience… — Tim Field Copy Share Image
As evangelical Christians we have tended to relegate art to the very fringe of life. The rest of human life we feel is more… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“Mental illness People assume you aren’t sick unless they see the sickness on your skin like scars forming a map of all the ways you’re hurting. My heart is a prison of Have you tried?s Have you tried exercising? Have you tried eating better? Have you tried not being sad, not being sick? Have you tried being more like me?… — Emm Roy Copy Share
In my long and colorful career, one thing stands out: I have been misunderstood. — Mae West Copy Share Image
To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them,… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
