理解
A novelist must be a psychologist, but a psychologist of a special kind—one who understands the souls of men and women as if he had made them.
The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It’s getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again.
I think art is about trying to understand the world and your place in it.
"Realism is not about copying nature, but understanding its essence."
The only way to understand painting is to look at it for a long time.
"Only through suffering does one understand the depth of life."
"Realism is not about copying nature, but understanding its essence."
I don't paint what I see, I paint what I understand.
Painting is a way of life, a way of understanding the world.
The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
It is not the task of history to judge, but to understand.
To understand everything is to forgive everything.
I write not to explain the world but to understand it.
"I don't write to be loved, I write to be understood."