Quotes About Interpretation

Art really is something very difficult. It is difficult to make, and it is sometimes difficult for the viewer to understand. It is difficult to work out what is art and what is not art.

The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.

I feel that there's hardly any irony in my work; if there's anything, there'll be sincerity, which people sometimes find hard to deal with.

A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has the ticket that shows its price.

To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it must not be considered at all.

Your work gets destroyed by dumb people and it gets enhanced by smart people and it really doesn't have anything to do with marketing.

I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving.

Poetry's work is not simply the recording of inner or outer perception; it makes by words and music new possibilities of perceiving

All decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis.

To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.

Sometimes it's better to live through someone's work than the person themselves, and to realise that every human being is flawed, but through art they can be perfect.

I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating analogies. Almost every work of art is an analogy.

A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them.

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

One doesn't need to know the artist's private intentions. The work tells all.

Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does

I use geometric and mathematical ideas to organize material, but those are tools. The purpose of the work is not to expose that at all, but to arrive at some kind of expressiveness.

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.

Either a writer doesn't want to talk about his work, or he talks about it more than you want.

If I don't have anything better to do that day, I'll copy paintings, generally by people who have some relationship to the work of the moment.

The way I work with my cinematographer is not based on general principles, but the ideas are triggered by the locations where we shoot.

I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.