Quotes About Interpretation

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a jungle.

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.

What concerns me when I work, is not whether the picture is a landscape, or whether it's pastoral, or whether somebody will see a sunset in it. What concerns me is - did I make a beautiful picture?

Every true work of art must express a distinct feeling.

It's the viewer that makes the work.

Once you know about a work of mine you own it. There's no way I can climb inside somebody's head and remove it.

History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.

When you manage to express something with a look and the music instead of saying it with words or having the character speak, I think it's a more complete work.

A work of art doesn't have to be explained.

Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his work suffering impoverishment.

I liked that the work itself was something other than simply what you saw It meant you could have an art work which was that idea of an art work, and its formal components weren't important.

An artistic impression is substantially the resultant of two components. One what the work of art gives the onlooker - the other, what he is capable of giving to the work of art.

My use of evenly repeated dots and diagonal lines and uninflected color areas suggest that my work is right where it is, right on the canvas, definitely not a window into the world.

I read the art reviews of my work. Some critics understand my art correctly, while some don't. I simply ignore the reviews written by the latter.

Science takes things apart to see how they work. Religion puts things together to see what they mean.

I trust my work. It's a collaboration with the material, and when it's viewed, it's a collaboration with the world.

While the authority of the doctor or plumber is never questioned, everyone deems himself a good judge and an adequate arbiter of what a work of art should be and how it should be done.

If the Bible and my brain are both the work of the same infinite God, whose fault is it that the book and my brain do not agree?

There is something wrong with a work of art if it can be understood by a policeman.

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.

I like keeping my work so open that it can be interpreted on different levels. Art can't be compared with journalism; it can't discuss concrete issues.

An artist is waiting for the audience to understand the work. A craftsman is working to understand the audience.