A lot of people who are artists don’t understand it themselves. Especially the young ones. They feel different, but they don’t know what it is. They feel more. Everything hurts. Everything. They’re super sensitive. They see things that other people don’t see.
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Quotes tagged ‘Understanding’
The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.
If I accept the other person as something fixed, already diagnosed and classified, already shaped by his past, then I am doing my part to confirm this limited hypothesis. If I accept him as a process of becoming, then I am doing what I can to confirm or make real his potentialities.
I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.
You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.
In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every thought and feeling remains incommunicable, locked up in the impenetrable strong-room of the individual soul and body. Our life is a sente…
Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the song of the birds? Why do they love a night, a flower, everything which surrounds man, without attempting to understand them? Whereas where painting is concerned, they want to understand. Let them understand above all that t…
I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals. It’s the only thing I do believe in.
Everybody’s born with some different thing at the core of their existence. And that thing, whatever it is, becomes like a heat source that runs each person from the inside. I have one too, of course. Like everybody else. But sometimes it gets out of hand. It swells or shrinks inside me, and it shake…
The more you look into and understand yourself, the less judgmental you become towards others.
I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
You’re the only person I’ve ever met who seems to have the faintest conception of what I mean when I say a thing.
Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.
I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
Art and love are the same thing: it’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you. It’s understanding the unreasonable.
It’s hard to hate someone once you understand them.
We think we understand the rules when we become adults, but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.
Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.
We’re all so desperate to be understood, we forget to be understanding.
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.