Quotes About Interpretation

In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.

It is ten per cent how you draw, and ninety per cent what you draw.

Art is one of the sources through which the soul expresses itself and inspires others. But to express art thoroughly, one must have the inner emotions opened thoroughly.

Art is always good. It just depends if you like or not.

I say half jokingly that photography is the most difficult of the arts. It does require a certain arrogance to see and to choose. I feel myself walking on a tightrope instead of on the ground.

When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.

It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes.

It was one of those plays in which all of the actors unfortunately enunciated very clearly.

"A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist."

If you haven't read Alan Fletcher's The Art of Looking Sideways you should be arrested for calling yourself a Designer

There are some things which cannot be learned, though they can be studied. Among them are the laws of art—and the lawlessness of it, as well.

The aesthetic principle is the same in every art, only the material differs.

Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804)

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

I'm not an abstract artist; I leave that to others. To me, abstract art ended with Kazimir Malevich's 'Black Square.' To continue it is senseless.

The most important lesson I received from Conceptual art consisted in the recording of simple and obvious things, and viewing them under a whole new light.

There is no art without a poetic aim.

I assumed from the outset that photography was already art, and that I and other people working in photography were artists. I understand now that this was a minority point of view.

Art teaches us to see into things. Folk art and kitsch allow us to see outward from within things.

It is not I that am drawing, it is this thing at the end of my hand.

In order to play musically you have to learn the art of exaggerating.

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all... feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique - all these are in the middle.

Art can't be compared with journalism; it can't deal with concrete issues.

Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.