Quotes About Interpretation

Art is long, and the talk about it is even longer.

The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary.

I feel like I have a pretty eclectic taste in music and art, so for every song I can see a different kind of video.

It's not the medium, but the quality of perception and expression, that determines the significance of art.

Artists recognize other artists as soon as the pencil begins to move.

An art machine is a system whose parts when put in motion act upon each other in such a way as to cause you to see things differently

Only art means anything.

Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.

In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.

To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.

I don't like to write a script unless I know who the artist is. A lot of people can do it without that, and that's cool, but I like to look at the art.

Reveal art; conceal the artist.

When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's important. It becomes a kind of idolatry.

I wanted not to make photographs that would be art, but art that would be photography.

I am one of the heretics who believes that art must be enjoyed first and analyzed later.

An abstract painting need in 50 years by no means look "abstract" any longer.

Art can make chaos seductive.

If I've grown as an artist, it will be represented in the art. There's no need to explain it.

Those who still think that listening isn't an art should see if they can do it half as well.

An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.

If it has a use it isn't art.

Artists make art... everyone else talks about it.

The art of fiction does not begin until the novelist thinks of his story as a matter to be shown, to be so exhibited that it will tell itself.

...combining the concrete and the universal is at the center of what makes art important.