Faith Ringgold Quotes

To analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music; it is one of those things which it is far better to enjoy, than to attempt to fully understand.

We can love completely what we cannot completely understand.

Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.

Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither.

As I grow to understand life less and less I grow to love it more and more.

I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me.

Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.

Why you do something is always kind of a mystery to me.

When it comes to comedy, it might be interesting to know why an airplane works, but really? Maybe it's better not to know why certain things work. Just fly the thing, and if nothing falls apart, you'll be fine.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

Art is what can't be proven mathematically, right, it's where science ends. It's the part that makes you feel good, but you don't know why.

It is unwise to wish everything explained.

Every film has a lot of questions that you don't know the answer to, and you just hope that you figure it out. But I tend to like things that are hard; I don't know why.

You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.

I don't feel it incumbent on me to make sense of everything.

Poems come from incomplete knowledge.

If the world were clear, art would not exist.

Don't express your ideas too clearly. Most people think little of what they understand, and venerate what they do not.

That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way.

I don't know of any good work of art that doesn't have a mystery.

Mystery is underrated, and understanding is overrated.

There are things you cannot understand, and you must learn to live with this. Not only must you learn to live with this, you must learn to enjoy this.

It's true that I can write a song and not really be sure what the meaning of it is.