Quotes About Interpretation

If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art.

Buying art is not understanding art.

The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.

I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories.

There's some people who are not understanding what Limp Bizkit is about. But, then again, who am I to tell people what they can use art for or how they can interpret it?

A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing.

Creating something that is universally beautiful. That is art.

The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

There are things that are not sayable. That's why we have art.

Cooking may be as much a means of self-expression as any of the arts.

Good art should elicit a response of 'Huh? Wow!' as opposed to 'Wow! Huh?'

There really is no such thing as Art. There are only artists.

When people say, 'I don't get art' ... that means art is working.

Why talk when you can paint?

Art is not there simply to be understood. ... It is more the sense of an indication or suggestion.

It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.

Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself.

People have the idea that an image must stand for something else, that the real meaning needs to be described with language. Instead it is the image itself that is the meaning.

Art's whatever you choose to frame.

If I set out to sculpt a standing man and it becomes a lying woman, I know I am making art.

Dance is an ephemeral, a fleeting art. To describe this momentum, every movement on stage, in words is virtually impossible.

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.