Quotes About Interpretation

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen.

The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.

I totally believe that art is an open dialogue and that it is not logical. It does not always make sense.

The camera for an artist is just another tool. It is no more mechanical than a violin if you analyze it. Beyond the rudiments, it is up to the artist to create art, not the camera.

Art is either revolution or plagiarism

Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.

Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line.

In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.

Art does not die because there is no more art. It dies because there is too much.

A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.

The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. ... They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.

Photography is the easiest art, which perhaps makes it the hardest.

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

It is not enough to deface the Mona Lisa because that does not kill the Mona Lisa. All art of the past must be destroyed.

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

Organized perception is what art is all about.

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.

New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas.

The artist is the person who makes life more interesting or beautiful, more understandable or mysterious, or probably, in the best sense, more wonderful.

Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.