Quotes About Interpretation

Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home a picture post card.

Usually, when we talk about creativity, it's about self-expression, which is great, but for work to be art or design, there has to be someone on the other end. The audience makes the work come alive.

There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.

A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view.

The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.

All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion of it, the shaping of it that makes for the drama.

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do.

I rather like a certain clumsiness in a work of art.

To accomplish artistic work, of any individual worth, nature must be seen through the medium of the artist's intellectual emotions.

I believe that a picture, a work of art, lives and dies just as we do.

A strong work of art really leaves people speechless. They feel a little angry because they don't understand it.

My left brain is doing the best job it can with the information it has to work with. I need to remember, however, that there are enormous gaps between what I know and what I think I know.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

It's always enjoyable to listen to a friend's work, but if it doesn't resonate with you, then you can just appreciate it and it inspires you in its own way.

Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.

The work of art... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty.

Enjoying the dream is more important than interpreting it. Therefore, don't work so hard that it stops being pleasant and exciting.

I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.

If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or a poem. Be flexible.

A work of art must make the rules: rules do not make a work of art...I tell people I am not a musician; I work with rhythms, frequencies and intensities...tunes are merely the gossips of music.

I was being an artist, being sensitive and technical as artists are. I'm sure Leonardo Da Vinci did that. Artists don't always feel the same as others feel about their work.

I certainly don't see the humour in my work as something that detracts from its seriousness. It's just a way of making difficult messages more palatable.

The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.