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"For me context is the key - from that comes the understanding of everything."
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"This deliberate focus and sensitivity allow you to "put yourself in another person's shoes and walk around a while" to better understand where they are coming from and what they are all about."
"It is called understanding when one accepts other's talks of wisdom; but, where is the wisdom filled talk in this era?"
"It's frustrating when our best efforts to help people fail. But if we could see life through their weary eyes and experience their trials with the same frayed emotions, we might understand why."
"When we understand people; when we understand situations;when we understand what matters;when we understand the why's, the what's and the how's;when we understand the trigger of actions, we least inflict pain on ourselves and unto others."
"We had better share our bewilderments. By hiding them from each other we should not hide them from ourselves."
"The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature."
"Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand."
"A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it."
"We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinions because we very often differ from ourselves."
"No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it."
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"Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist."
"The scene then as now was centered in New York. For the most part, I've kept a bit apart from that attractive and seductive city. I've done it by living in the country within commuting distance."
"Because of this the representation I'm interested in is of those things only the eye can touch."
"As time goes on, I realize more and more that, beginning in the early 30's, David Smith began setting the precedent for what was to come later for many of us."
"With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique."
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