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I can understand someone not liking the voice or the songs. ↗

— Joanna Newsom

#i can #liking #someone #songs #understand

Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting people have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only a trifling bit of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can't explain them. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#artist #enjoyment #understanding #art

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease. ↗

— William Osler

#alike #behave #bodies #conditions #disease

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground. ↗

— Thomas Overbury

#best #best part #boast #ground #his

The Internet has changed everything. We expect to know everything instantly. If you don't understand digital communication, you're at a disadvantage. ↗

— Bob Parsons

#communication #digital #disadvantage #everything #expect

The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins. ↗

— Saint Patrick

#i #lord #opened #recall #should

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

— Claude Monet

#everyone #love #necessary #pretends #simply

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

— Claude Monet

#discuss #love #necessary #people #pretend

Well it's a drastic procedure by your standards and mine, but for the people who are living in desperation perhaps the best way to understand it is that it seems no more drastic to them than circumcision. ↗

— John Money

#best way #desperation #drastic #for the people #living

By obtaining a sense of its place in the unfolding drama of life, set in an ecological theatre, so we can understand why it has become one of the leading players. ↗

— Simon Conway Morris

#drama #ecological #leading #life #obtaining