Art Quote by Pablo Picasso

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

Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are usually barking…

— Pablo Picasso

Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to understand the song of the birds?

— Pablo Picasso

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

— Pablo Picasso

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

When a painting is finished, it's like a new born child, and the artist himself must have time for understanding. How then do you…

— Henri Matisse

What's so astonishing about not understanding? There are so many things in art, beginning with art itself, that one doesn't understand. A painter doesn't…

— Henri Matisse

Art is not there simply to be understood. ... It is more the sense of an indication or suggestion.

— Joseph Beuys

Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is…

— Otto Dix

You don't have to know anything about art to appreciate it or to look at it. There aren't any hidden secrets or things that…

— Keith Haring

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

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

— Karl Kraus