Quotes About Interpretation

The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.

If the real world is orange juice, then art is like orange-juice concentrate.

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself.

All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.

Art is more to do with observation than invention.

All art forms employ some means through which images become real.

Food can be expressive and therefore food can be art.

I have never seen a beautiful painting of a beautiful woman. But you can take an ugly woman and make a beautiful painting of her. It is the painting itself that should be beautiful.

If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.

Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.

Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

I used language because I wanted to offer content that people - not necessarily art people - could understand.

Art is an escape from reality.

Why is comedy the only form of the arts where people think they have to agree with or approve the content? You don't walk through a museum with a towel and throw it over paintings you don't like.

You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it.

To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our psychic comfort zones, suspend disbelief, and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously.

Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.

All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.

Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.

All creation is in the art of seeing.