Quotes About Interpretation

The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.

A man's mind is hidden in his writings: criticism brings it to light.

I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.

There is a definite argument to be made that videogames are becoming an art form put together by artists of different types.

If you really understand something, you can: 1) explain it using a clear metaphor and 2) explain the strongest counter-argument to the idea.

The fly in her argument is that when she says, 'they' will feel like lemons, we don't know who 'they' are. And 'they' might BE lemons.

I think we begin to lose the ability to read in the deepest, most interpretive ways because were not kind of calming our mind and just focusing on the argument or the story.

You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument.

My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'

The human being receives the pleasure from music, not from the argument over what it is.

Talking with a Martian is like talking with an echo. You don't get argument but you don't get results.

I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments but not with comprehension.

What are they fighting about?" Saba listened for a moment and closed her eyed in frustration. "They're arguing scripture." "Your brother is arguing scripture? With an angel?

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.

We have art so that we shall not die of reality.

Anything can be art. Anything can be self-expression . Now you take the weapon and run with it.

People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish... but that's only if it's done properly.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

If words were adequate to describe fully what the dance can do, there would be no reason for all the mighty muscular effort, the discomfort, the sweat and the splendors of that art.

I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures.

Making art is about accepting what's going on around you and turning it into

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.