Quotes About Interpretation

That art is best which suggests most.

Art is consumed in so many different ways. You could say people don't stop to appreciate art. On the other hand, people can consume art more quickly.

I think all art is subjective - that whoever's watching it or listening to it will decide whether it's good or bad.

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

Art is a never-ending dance of illusions.

The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.

All art is someone trying to tell you something.

I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.

Art is something out of the ordinary commenting on the ordinary.

If art is the poetic interpretation of nature, photography is the exact translation; it is exactitude in art or the complement of art. (1854)

Art is really about how you capture different things you see around you and bring them into forms and words and shapes and meaning.

Making art is different for everyone.

Duchamp is known for calling a thing art, rather than making it. A lot of that is picked up in pop art, too.

For me, art is always a kind of theater.

Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world.

There's a point where art is not subjective, and my example for that is Picasso. If you don't like Picasso, that's your problem.

I can never fathom it when people say things like "I can't understand abstract art!" Or: "Abstract art is junk!" Or: "Abstract art isn't as valid as realism!"

Only thanks to Pop Art, my painting has become understandable.

When you get questions that annoy you the art is answering them differently. If you're bored with it, then everyone will be bored with it.

Most great art is freedom within form. Without form, we are amateurs, without freedom, we are robots.

I really don't know what's good or bad art because all the art I like people tell me is tasteless.

grievance does not make for great art.

No art is sunk in the self, but rather, in art the self becomes self-forgetful in order to meet the demands of the thing seen and the thing being made.

Art is both a vengeance against reality and a reconciliation with it.