Explain

Famous quotes containing the word explain:

“How could he explain to them his prayer
That nature, not art, might unsurp the canvas?”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.”
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)

“Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.”
—Lewis Thomas (b. 1913)