Art Quote by Robert Rauschenberg Download Open image “Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.” — Robert Rauschenberg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Blindness Form Good art Learning Thinking Understanding Understood
'Understanding' art is like having a sense of humour - if you don't have one, no amount of explanation is going to make you… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing. — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art. — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
Art is not there simply to be understood. ... It is more the sense of an indication or suggestion. — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same. — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting, — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
I'm quite taken aback when I get something that appears to be technically a good photograph, because it's not necessarily my intention. — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
I was much happier when I had less responsibility... when my only responsibility was to my work and to myself. — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
It is neither Art for Art, nor Art against Art. I am for Art, but for Art that has nothing to do with Art.… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' In the first place I don't use ideas. Every time I have an idea… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
I don't really trust ideas, especially good ones. Rather I put my trust in the materials that confront me, because they put me in… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
I refuse to be in this world by myself. I want an open commitment from the rest of the people. — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have taken photographs and just felt so excited that I could barely hold the camera steady, and the photo was boring. — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
