Quotes About Interpretation

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.

It's better for me to go up against someone's passion with my passion and then clarifying something that he wrote. Then I know how to work around certain things.

If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable, rather than its literal narrative.

On the day of the show, I sit down with someone that speaks very good English and someone who speaks the local language very well and work out what I'm going to say.

I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.

A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.

Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings.

The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it.

Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.

The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.

A lot of movies try to set up a world with cool sets, costumes, camera work. In Brick, the world is born from the words.

A work of art is an echo chamber which repeats what people say about it.

Color is one way the eye and the brain work together to define the external world. However, not all cultures see color in the same way, nor do they give it as much importance as in western culture.

Any work of art must first of all tell a story.

A work of art expresses itself as a balance sheet pitting the spoken against the unspoken.

All my work is created from personal experiences. My hope is always that others will see it as a gateway, develop their own message and feel a part of the art.

There are no personal revelations other than feelings arising from the work itself

Art has a smaller audience than, say, movies or other forms of mass consumption. But that doesn't mean the work doesn't have an impact in a way that transcends just a few cultural arbiters.

I think that other people covering my work is really exciting... Im really open to that kind of thing because I think interpretation is an art form.

I have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I see no reason why the word should always be confined to writers of fiction and poetry.

I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work it's no longer his.

What appear to us to be causal explanations are in fact just stories—descriptions of what happened that tell us little, if anything, about the mechanisms at work.

Hey, when I said work fast, I didn't mean your friend, I meant the maid.

An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.