A Quote by Eugene Ionesco

If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art.

Eugene Ionesco

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Art Cannot Does Understand Useful Usefulness Useless Uselessness

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Eugene Ionesco
French - Dramatist
November 26, 1909 - March 28, 1994

The most useful thing about art is it's uselessness.

Tom Robbins

One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand

Novalis

I can understand that memory must be selective, else it would choke on the glut of experience. What I cannot understand is why it selects what it does.

Virgilia Peterson

The usefulness of science is sometimes exaggerated. You'd never talk about music being useful or art being useful.

Richard Dawkins

A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child's mind, he does not understand teaching.

Fulton J. Sheen

Everyone wants to understand art. Why don't we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything around us, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting, people think they have to understand.

Pablo Picasso

Be very sure of this,-people never reject the Bible because they cannot understand it. They understand it only too well; they understand that it condemns their own behavior; they understand that it witnesses against their own sins, and summons them to judgment.

J. C. Ryle

I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon, but I cannot understand the love affair.

Gore Vidal

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

Anton Chekhov

Anyone unable to understand how useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.

Kurt Vonnegut

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

Milan Kundera

If, in fact, one cannot understand English, and at the point in time that one comes to vote, one has to be given a ballot in a different language, does that not mean that one is also most likely unable to understand the debate that occurred prior to the decision one makes to vote?

Tom Tancredo

I think more to the point, these pivotal times means something other than a politician. I understand the economy. I understand the world. I have a lot of foreign policy experience. I understand bureaucracies. I understand technology, and I understand leadership.

Carly Fiorina

We cannot understand without wanting to understand, that is, without wanting to let something be said...Understanding does not occur when we try to intercept what someone wants to say to us by claiming we already know it.

Hans-Georg Gadamer

One of the ultimate challenges of biology is to understand how the brain becomes consciously aware of perception, experience and emotion. But it is equally conceivable that the exchange would be useful for the beholders of art, for people who enjoy art, for historians, and for the artists themselves.