Quotes About Interpretation

If a director can find the exact combination between the written word as a guideline and improvisational input from his actors, I think that's where you'll find the most successful work being done.

There's nothing wrong with provocative art work: I even look forward to the day when I can take pictures which will disturb even me.

The photography is not the aim of the work; the articulation of the work through photography is another way of understanding what's going on and what's happening outside.

I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work

My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis

The only original part in a work of art is the infusion of the artist's own character, if he has one.

Ask photographers to write and they have nothing to say; ask them to talk about their work and they won't shut up.

I teach literature. That's easy for me. Take someone else's work and talk about it.

The core of my work is dedicated not to pleasing women, but to pleasing men.

It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work.

The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.

The work of art expresses precisely those things which do not die. It must do so, however, in a form that bears witness to the artist's own era.

I feel quite comfortable and happy with making a work that looks like it could have been made by somebody else.

Perhaps only silence and love do justice to a great work of art

I hope my work isn't dismissed by the critics as illustration or photography.

Until the raw ingredients of a pudding make a pudding, I shall never believe that the raw material of sensation and thought can make a work of art without the cook's intervening.

I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.

Every work of art is about everything.

It's just so hard sometimes to work out where people stand on these things. I mean, isn't the Pope a feminist?

The most disheartening tendency common among readers is to tear out one sentence from a work, as a criterion of the writer's ideas or personality.

Perhaps the sketch of a work is so pleasing because everyone can finish it as he chooses.

Each work is a surprise and has its own personal and intuitive meaning.

Your work may be great and not make its way into the big picture... like Van Gogh... so who's to say what's good and bad?

Just because something causes you to have a feeling of aesthetic beauty does not make it a work of art.