Quotes About Interpretation

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

Art is not made for anybody and is, at the same time, for everybody.

Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection.

The art of reading is to skip judiciously.

The only art I'm interested in is the art I don't understand right away. If you understand it right away it really has no use except as nostalgia.

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

All art is self-portraiture.

Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think.

At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

Anything can be art. Art is the relations between relations, not the relations between objects.

The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring.

The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal.

I'd always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn't.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

The artist confronts chaos. The whole thing of art is, how do you organize chaos?

But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.

People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.

What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it art, and bad art is still art in the same way that a bad emotion is still an emotion.

We're not choosing the art, the art is choosing us. The pieces are choosing the walls where they hang.

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

The golden rule in the arts, as far as I am concerned, is that all rules are meant to be broken.

Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.