Famous quotes containing the word understood:
“Those that understood him smiled at one another and shook their heads; but for mine own part, it was Greek to me.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“What we do is never understood but always merely praised or blamed.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Since art is the expression of beauty and beauty can be understood only in the form of the material elements of the true idea it contains, art has become almost uniquely feminine. Beauty is woman, and also art is woman.”
—Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)