Quotes About Interpretation

Art that imposes conditions - human or otherwise - on the receiver for its appreciation in my eyes constitutes aesthetic fascism.

My paintings are only the ashes of my art

How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.

Art does not come from thinking but from responding.

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

Art at its greatest is fantastically deceitful and complex.

You're supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you're not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind.

Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water.

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

"Art is the ability to turn one's gaze to the world of oblivion." This is the way in which I understand art at fundamental level.

Art is a way of expression that has to be understood by everyone, everywhere.

The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world.

You cannot explain me with "isms." They are very bad for an artist. What one must believe in is color.

It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colours, but the art of words exists too, and will never be less important.

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.

Art has always had as its test in the long term the ability to speak to our innermost selves.

Art addresses itself to the mind, and not to the eyes. It has always been considered in this way by primitive peoples, and they are right.

What counts most is finding new ways to get the world down in paint on my own terms.

That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.

One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer

It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.

Art is not emotion. Art is the medium in which emotion is expressed.

Light is impressionism.

To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing.