Quotes About Interpretation

Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality.

Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.

Art is the daughter of pleasure.

We cannot underestimate the power of the different art forms, and the correspondences between them, which are an unending source of inspiration and enrichment.

The spontaneous is the most beautiful thing that can appear in a picture, but nothing in art appears less spontaneously than that.

I am not so sure whether what we do now is art or something not quite art. If I call it art, it is because I wish to avoid the endless arguments some other name would bring forth.

It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.

All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

The artist does not really create; he discovers.

Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water.

Find the most puzzling kind of art you can think of, and then go out and try to approximate it with your camera. Take a photograph that corresponds to it. (Assignment to students.)

I've always believed film is most close to music of all the other arts.

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

Cinema is an art form.

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.

I'd been painting rats for three years before someone said 'that's clever it's an anagram of art' and I had to pretend I'd known that all along.

I think that the first part of the art is making the art, but when art really becomes art is when it belongs to somebody else.

I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth.

You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.

What are we singers but the silver-voiced messengers of the poet and the musician?

What is art? Prostitution.