Quotes About Interpretation

The realists do not take the photograph for a 'copy' of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not an art.

You can't understand how strange it was to be a sculptor who exhibited photographs. (On exhibitions of his earthworks and land art pieces.)

The public buys "art" - but the word is drained of its meaning.

And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.

If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace.

Art isn't about drawing; it's about learning to see. What organization doesn't need this ability?

The Holy Spirit speaks many languages; among them the languages of art in all its forms.

What's interesting about art in public spaces is that the public really sort of takes over and uses it in ways that you didn't anticipate.

I don't pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean.

Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.

Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.

A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.

The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.

I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound.

All art is a form of artifice.For in art there can be no prejudices.

Art is nothing; it's a way.

All art is an abstraction to some degree.

The depths modern art has been exploring are mysterious depths, full of strange fish.

One function of art is to de-kitschify kitsch.

Art is the highest expression of the human spirit.

Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.

Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it.

Art is a shadow of what a person is thinking... a small glimpse of what they hold inside. Little secrets, regrets, joys... every line has its own meaning.

Thus all Art is propaganda and ever must be.