Quotes About Interpretation

For me the meaning of my work is much more fluid.

I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good statistics.

Artists can no more speak about their work, than plants can speak about horticulture.

It is a rare photographer who can take a detached, cold-blooded view of his work.

A work of art may be understood as a conductor from the artist's mind to the viewer's. But it may never reach the viewer, or it may never leave the artist's mind.

If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it.

To appreciate a work of art, is it okay to like what you like, and the heck with the art critics and experts? Absolutely.

Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.

God desires that we become spiritually healthy enough through faith to have a conscience that rightly interprets the work of the Holy Spirit.

The word story is intended to alert the reader to the fact that, however closely the narrative may fit the facts, the fictional process has been at work.

I want to question the images that are in our memory. There is always a double level in my work; what you see is true and at the same time not true.

An interpreter must give his blood to the work interpreted.

In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.

You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.

Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter.

The ultimate judgment of a work of art, whether it be a masterpiece or a lesser event, must be solely in terms of its artistic success and not on Freudian guesswork.

All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.

Often, I get the feeling that the story is really happening somewhere and all I'm doing is trying to work out the best way to tell it.

The miracle is that a work of art should live in the person who reads it.

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.

Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.

When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.

I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.

Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.