Quotes About Interpretation

Art is the splendor of reality before everything has become meaning.

Music and acting are the same thing: you must understand that art is only the search, not the final form.

Art is a wicked thing. It is what we are.

No artist knows everything... but since every artist knows more than he can tell, all art is lying by omission.

My art was not an answer - it was a question.

I wanted to be a painter and an artist. And it's interesting that in some of my later musical works, I refer so often and associate myself with works of art.

Only through apprehending, by means of present-day creations, how art is created, can the creations of other periods be genuinely appreciated.

Art is a point of view, and a genius way of looking at things.

I'm always on the look out for 'the good image'. I'm like The Borg (you know, Star Trek) inasmuch as I assimilate everything - but I like to think I'm working in the Pop Art tradition.

Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.

The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.

Art is the human process that produces by the way (it is not its only or ultimate object) Secondary Belief.

... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness

I feel that works of art are an opportunity for people to construct meaning, so I don't usually tell what they mean. It conveys to people that they have to participate.

Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother tongue.

Art is not disposable.

I believe that while art is always beyond morality, it is never above it.

Money is something that can be measured; art is not. It's all subjective.

Being critical of art is a way of showing art respect.

Art isn't just paint and music, art is breaking glass and the sounds we make without realizing.

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.

Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart.

Art is a conduit toward human needs and perception.