Quotes About Interpretation

The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.

You have to challenge people to reconsider what is art, what is taste. Because it's someone's point-of-view.

I received my training at an art academy, so what I produce is art. That's what is artistic about my photographs.

When you understand a species' art, you understand that species.

Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.

Artists are prophets. They define the meaning of our lives and point the way.

All artists are two-headed calves.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin.

It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself.

All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth.

Where does contagion end and art begin?

But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating.

An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.

Not everybody has a talent for painting, or for the piano, or for dance. But we can write our way into the artist's head and into his problems and solutions. Or we can go there with another writer.

An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.

Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.

What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos.

Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.

In art school we're always taught that art is an end in itself - art for art's sake, expressing yourself, and that that's enough.

Art is incredibly subjective. What is great art to one person isn't necessarily to another.

A series is a big deal, and there are a lot of people out there writing stuff that don't know what art is.

We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted.

Art is the consciousness of currency.

Art is a tool by which society extends its perception.