Quotes About Interpretation

I don't say everything, but I paint everything.

I don't believe that art makes people violent in any way. I don't. But I do believe art can show people how to be violent and that's much more dangerous in a way.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

The world is beautiful but not sayable. That's why we need art.

Art is to look at not to criticize.

Art is purposiveness without purpose.

Bad critics judge a work of art by comparing it to pre-existing theories. They always go wrong when confronted with a masterpiece because masterpieces make their own rules.

Our aim is to take our art to the world and make people understand what it is to move.

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.

When artists give form to revelation, their art can advance, deepen and potentially transform the consciousness of their community.

The end of lower art is to please, the end of average art is to raise the top, the end of superior art is to free.

I've decided that art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is, for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with it.

Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.

I guess art is in the eye of the beholder.

The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.

I paint what I think, not what I see.

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

If it sells, it's art.

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.

Teaching is a performance art.

The connoisseur might be defined as a laconic art historian, and the art historian as a loquacious connoisseur.

In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.

Only in black and white can I see the design and textures. I don't consider color photography art. Black and white is an interpretation. Color is a duplication.

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings