Quotes About Interpretation

One has to guard against a formula that is good for everything, that can interpret reality in addition to the other arts, and that rather than creating can only result in a style, or a stylization.

Art does not copy nature - it suggests it.

Part of the strength of Pollock and Rothko's art, in fact, is this doubt as to whether art may be there at all.

Art consists in making others feel what we feel.

As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it absolutely.

Creative expression and visual comprehension are really the handmaidens of art. One cannot thrive without the other.

Art is one of the dirtiest words in our language; it's mucked up with all kinds of meanings. There's the art of plumbing; there's the art of almost anything that you can say.

Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.

It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.

A playwright... is... the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about.

Do you know that drawing with words is also an art... ?

Art matures. It is the formal elaboration of activity, complete in its own pattern. It is a cosmos of its own.

Nothing so resembles a daub as a masterpiece.

I figured out that art would be the perfect place for me because what's encouraged is the invention of languages.

Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.

I don't believe too much in originality... you learn art from other art and then looking into somebody's face or landscape is the point of departure to do your work of art.

The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.

Art does not imitate, but interpret.

Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.

An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from the past when we see it freshly.