#understand

"There is a reason that all things are as they are, and did you see with my eyes and know with my knowledge, you would perhaps better understand."

"I used language because I wanted to offer content that people - not necessarily art people - could understand."

"I dont think that we're meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to have faith."

"Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is."

"A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself."

"It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star."

"Now, Richard Pryor was unique. Many misunderstood his humor. He lit up the hallway, but they didn't understand his use of profanity. He didn't use it just to be using it; he used it in the context of his satire."

"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself."

"Putting on my legs is like putting on my shoes. I understand that's how some people might think differently, but I hope that in London, their perceptions open up."

"When people say they don’t understand my generation, I like to point out that it’s not “my” generation. I’m only co-owner with a 50% stake."

"Love has reasons which reason cannot understand."

"Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love."

"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had."

"The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease."

"They say you fear what you don't understand. Maybe that's why every time I'm in South Florida, and I hear someone talking in Spanish, I always shit my pants."

"Quotes are made we to think, we have made a mistake so quotes will put us in the right way? (But can we understand them - is the best question)"

"People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love."

"When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better."

"Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do."

"Whenever we proceed from the known into the unknown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word 'understanding."