Quotes About Interpretation

Not every work of art is or need be a heavily profound statement.

Every work of art depicts an aspect of reality.

The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always somewhat uncertain, like all kinds of speech.

The other day, someone called me this generation's Bruce Dern - I'd never thought of that, and frankly, I don't know enough of Bruce Dern's work to comment on it, though he is an incredible actor.

Aside from women, I don't know. My work doesn't function the way Robert Frank's did.

Content is the meaningful substance of the work.

When I began taking photographs I thought they might work better in magazines, in a journalistic sense, rather than as art.

I always like to borrow bits and pieces of things. There's a line between jumping on something that's happening and incorporating bits and pieces of it into my work.

I've been very lucky to work with many amazing animators and directors who can interpret and extend the music I make. When it's done well, it can create extra meaning and new context for the song.

In a way my work is documentary. But I am also a photographer who has a distinct style. My photographs are a companion to the reality of the situation.

I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them.

An audience's or individual's reaction to my work is simply their reaction.

The finest works of art are those in which there is the least matter. The closer expression comes to thought, the more the word clings to the idea and disappears, the more beautiful the work of art.

There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes.

A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter.

O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art.

In my work, I attempt to deal with the Bible as I would deal with any work of literature.

Imagination helps the realism of every detail, and only sees the beauties of the work.

I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period.

If there is a category of human being for whom his work ought to speak for itself, it is the writer.

A work, however, should be judged by its design and its execution, and not by any preconceived notion of what it ought to be according to the critic, rather than the author.

That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.

For an actor, style comes last. You first have to implement the whole thing, but your style comes from the subconscious, which is the best part an actor brings to his work.

I would never never read a work of fiction and want to know about the person's life.