Quotes About Interpretation

While listening, to things like western swing, for instance, I'd work something out in my head, then play it on my National; not the same song, but one that captured the feeling of the original tune.

Descriptions of my work depress me. They make me feel pinned down.

I don't like theorizing about my work myself, but that's not to say I have no interest in theory. Other people are free to say what they want about my work.

Try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would.

Fact is only what you believe and fact and fiction work as a team.

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work.

The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.

Art is the space between the viewer and the rectangle that hangs on the wall. Unless something of the person that created the work is there, there's nothing for the viewer to take away.

Whenever I work on a part, I look at the world through the filter of the character and I pick things they might use through my observations of real life.

I am afraid that as evangelicals, we think that a work of art only has value if we reduce it to a tract.

The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.

Any work that is really great hovers between terrific and terrible.

I work with whatever mediums seems best suited to evoking the sorts of thoughts and emotions I am interested in playing with.

You can't just be reactive to the things going on in your life. You have to imagine, and you have to plunder other people's work, books, poems, ideas, observations.

What the artist must aim at above all else is this: to produce, by any process whatever, a work which by the life and humanity emanating from it communicates to the beholder . . . .

The work of art is an ostentatiously improbable occurrence.

It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws

My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their own accord, instead of having to praise or to explain it.

The person viewing your work has no idea what the scene really looked like, nor do they care.

To read is to let someone else work for you - the most delicate form of exploitation.

Sometimes you talk to people who really don't know anything about your work, and what can you say?

The French have a different take on photography than Americans do. They consider photography to be absolutely parallel to literature. That often makes for a deeper perception of the work.

My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean?