Quotes About Interpretation

[The sensate body possesses] an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis.

By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.

I do dream about art, and images come to me in dreams. I am definitely hoping to be in touch with my subconscious. I expect a call any minute.

Works of art are landscapes of the mind.

Whatever art is, it is no longer something primarily to be looked at. Stared at, perhaps, but not primarily looked at

Art is what everyone knows it is.

The language of art is celestial in origin and can only be understood by the chosen.

The aim of art is to create space.

Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.

Art is basically entertainment.

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

Art cannot be used to show the validity of Christianity; it should rather be the reverse.

All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means were only line and color.

My art is about paying attention - about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art.

And no book, and possibly no painting, when it is finished, is ever exactly like the first dream of it.

An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.

Painting is more important than art.

Art comes from everywhere. It's your response to your surroundings.

For both art and the historical sciences are ways of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence is immediately brought into play.

Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.

Jesus almost never talked in terms of explaining. He was always using enigmatic stories and difficult metaphors. He was always pulling people into some kind of participation.

An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art.