“Before you hate something you should try to understand it.”
“Perhaps you should try creating something of note before you attempt to criticize something created by another.”
“you have to love something before you can hate it.”
“If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.”
“Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.”
“Works of art are meant to be lived with and loved, and if we try to understand them, we should try to understand them as we try to understand anyone—in order to know them better, not in order to know something else.”