Quotes About Interpretation

I'm trying to paint a picture of what I have seen and what moved me, as well as I can. That's all.

The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.

When art dresses itself in the most worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.

Many persons feel art, some understand it; but few both feel and understand it.

It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art.

No one, though has to go to college to make or understand or enjoy art. Wonderful artists and critics - some of the best - have educated themselves.

A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters, my secrets.

A painting is what you make of it, besides which, 'Moon, Weeping' has a better ring to it than 'Paintbrush, Dripping.

Between the wolf in the tall grass and the wolf in the tall story there is a shimmering go-between. That go-between, that prism, is the art of literature.

When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.

Creativity is the art that can give rise to visionary metaphorical relationships, as opposed to purely psy-chological ones.

I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.

I'm using my art to comment on what I see. You don't have to agree with it.

What is art? Nature concentrated.

One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.

The fact that cartoons are reproduced doesn't mean anything to me as far as whether they are "real art" or not.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

We'll always have art, darling.

No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or "real" art; they simply think it's a bad cartoon.

If I ever have a conflict between art and nature, I let art win.

I do feel Im being respectful to Buddhism and martial arts with Mortal Kombat.

In art, one does not aim for simplicity; one achieves it unintentionally as one gets closer to the real meaning of things.

Why write [about my art]? Why not just show the photographs?