Quotes About Interpretation

The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.

The painter makes real to others his innermost feelings about all that he cares for. A secret becomes known to everyone who views the picture through the intensity with which it is felt.

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.

And what more could I possibly ask as an artist than that your most precious visions, however rare, assume sometimes the forms of my images.

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.

The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.

The most pleasurable thing in the world, for me, is to see something and then translate how I see it.

Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.

The designer of today re-establishes the long-lost contact between art and the public, between living people and art as a living thing.

Art is a line around your thoughts.

Without atmosphere a painting is nothing.

Art is something that happens inside us. We look at things in the world, and we become excited by them. We understand our own possibilities of becoming. And that's what art is.

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

This is what I think art is and what I demand of it: that it pull everyone in, that it show one person another's most intimate thoughts and feelings, that it throw open the window of the soul.

What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.

I try to make images that have the immediate presence we take for granted in objects - a chair, a shoe, a book, a Judd - and compose them like sentences.

Anything is art if an artist says it is.

The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.