Quotes About Interpretation

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.

I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.

Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.

What seems distinctively modern as a unit of thought, of art, of discourse is the fragment; and the quotation is one kind of fragment.

One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but bad ones vomit it forth.

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

I shall praise those faces which seem to project out of the picture as though they were sculptured, and I shall censure those faces in which I see no art but that of outline.

I've studied astrology for many, many years, and I feel like it's an incredibly challenging art.

All our knowledge is symbolic.

Art comes into being in that abstract interval between a thought and reality, and no one - not even the artist who created it - can remeasure the influences that caused it.

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

There's no wrong way of doing art. It's an expression of the individual.

Some people who look at abstract art say 'I could do that.' A good response is, 'Go ahead but then you'll be accused of copying.

biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.

To extend the depth of what has been called 'art' into photography requires... making available to the spectator the amazing transformations the subject undergoes to become the photograph.

Art, if it is successful, needs no explanation.

I'm married to an artist. I get a lot of inspiration from art, from the lighting in art, from the compositions in art, from the textures, and all of that. I'm always playing with it.

The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.

I always distrust the word art when it is applied to acting.

The power of art can open our minds.

Statistics is the art of lying by means of figures.

Art to me is not precious enough that I feel territorial about what the word gets applied to. Conversations about what counts as art and what doesn't doesn't captivate my attention very much.