Quotes About Interpretation

The discussion about whether photography is or isn't art is dated and of no interest. Your work makes you an artist, not your title.

Once it is out of his hand the artist has no control over the way a viewer will perceive the work. Different people will understand the same thing in a different way.

For me a work of art must be an elevated interpretation of nature. The search for the ideal has been the purpose of my life. In landscape or seascape, I love above all the poetic motif.

You are just as qualified as any expert to make a judgment and have a feeling or a response to any work of art.

I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them.

Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

You like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape or abstract. You like it. It hits you. You don't have to read it. The work of art-sculpture or painting-forces your eye.

I deny that either singers or conductors can "create" or work creatively - this, as I have always said, is a conception that leads to the abyss.

A work becomes a work of art when one re-evaluates the values of nature and adds one's own spirituality.

You know, it was just another presentation of my work, and a funny one, because the cards are quite different from the normal Tarot deck, no?

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

There is always the danger in scientific work that some word or phrase will be used by different authors to express so many ideas and surmises that, unless redefined, it loses all real significance.

My work is about seeing - seeing things like they haven't been seen before.

Every good work should have at least ten meanings.

Readers themselves, I think, contribute to a book. They add their own imaginations, and it is as though the writer only gave them something to work on, and they did the rest.

Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.

It's not my intention to shock, to offend, sensationalise, be political or whatever; only to make work that is as spiritually meaningful as I can make it-whatever the medium.

Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art object. An essay about an artist's work is not the artist's work.

The pictorial work was born of movement, is itself recorded movement, and is assimilated through movement (eye muscles).

I don't think you need to be so result-oriented when you're trying to define the success of an art work. I think we can allow some unpredictability.

In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work

But the dance speaks to everyone. Otherwise it wouldn't work.