On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level.
And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.
We're in a post-conceptual era where it's really the artist's idea and vision that are prized rather than the ability to master the crafts that support the work. Today, our understanding of an artist is closer to a philosopher than to a craftsman.
Alchemy is a kind of philosophy: a kind of thinking that leads to a way of understanding.
I love cooking for the sake of understanding how people before me used to feed themselves, used to feed their families.
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
There were a lot of little triggers that made me realize that life is now; life is happening while we're preoccupied with stupidities. Of course, growing. Of course, becoming a mother and understanding life from another perspective.
Art is always a search for understanding, and the different levels and frequencies of that search feel completely comfortable and natural to me.
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
I spent so many years just saying what I felt without thinking about the ramifications, without understanding that I have this opinion but not everyone might share that opinion and now they don't like me because of it.
The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.
An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.
The need we have for information is great, and we get it from many admirable sources. The need we have for understanding and acceptance is much greater. The arts are uniquely able to help us meet the greater needs.
Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.
Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding.
People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.
For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding.
I have a close association with Gen. Petraeus... What you get in Dave Petraeus is a very unique officer, a combination of intelligence, extraordinary depth of knowledge and understanding.
The discovery of superfluidity opened up a new understanding in the science world.
Growing up as a young kid, I was in a restaurant. So, you know, I always had a very good understanding of the nuances. And in a way, that was a bad thing. Because it kind of programmed me to believe that if you're going have a restaurant, this is what you need to do, and this is the way it's going to be run.
Every day there is a compromise. Living with somebody requires a lot of understanding. But I love being married. I really love it.
There are clear cases in which 'understanding' literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument.
'Rust' really started with the passing of my dad, and me really looking back inward to my self about where I stand with all things on a faith/religious/spiritual level. And it's really put me on this interesting road and very educational, I might add, road back to understanding the role of faith in God and Christ in my life.
I've tried to write from my own understanding of identity in all my comics, whether it's about superheroes or historical conflicts or monkey gods.
Understanding how Cas9 is able to locate specific 20-base-pair target sequences within genomes that are millions to billions of base pairs long may enable improvements to gene targeting and genome editing efforts in bacteria and other types of cells.
We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.
Writing is incredibly important to me as a way of handling the world, understanding how it works.
You can't go into new life experiences without the understanding that yeah, you may fail, but knowing you might fail can't stop you from trying.
The fact that Obama is getting criticism from the left and the right might reflect his understanding of the underlying political dynamics.
Nixon had lists upon lists upon lists. They were tragic lists saying, 'Smile more,' or, 'Be stronger - remember, it is your job to spiritually uplift the nation.' This understanding of his limitations is heartbreaking.
I used to be a huge fan of 'Lockup' on MSNBC, and that certainly has helped with my understanding of the world.
Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what's happening, and they have better skills to work it out.
I wouldn't say that 'The Fabric of the Cosmos' is a book on cosmology. Cosmology certainly plays a big part, but the major theme is our ever-evolving understanding of space and time, and what it all means for our sense of reality.
When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.