Quotes About Interpretation

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody said that she does not look like it, but that does not make any difference, she will, he said.

Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.

What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.

The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning.

The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.

As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language.

When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost.

I've learnt so much from every film and every director - a new perspective, a greater appreciation of the art.

Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.

Those who call themselves art photographers are pompous, arrogant egoists.

I think it's important to make art that is not that easily absorbable, that is a challenge to the authorities.

In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.

Art makes something a lot more visible or audible.

Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

A work of art is an exaggeration.

Art is what separates us from the animals.

When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.

Sometimes the painting starts to relate very directly to either sights seen or experiences felt, other times it just goes off on a tangent that you really can't articulate.

Art shows us how to see things that are constructive and good, and to be an active part of that.

Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.

Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.

The highs, the lows, the peaks, the valleys, whatever, it's all going to go into the art, whether I'm singing or acting or whatever.