Quotes About Interpretation

What's beautiful about art is that it circumscribes a space, a physical and mental space. If you try to put the entire world into every page, you turn out chaos.

The art of writing is mysterious, the opinions we hold are ephemeral.

Art is good but it isn't the best.

Everybody's an art critic.

There are only fools who believe that art is a serious matter.

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

Teaching is performance art.

Just because you're wearing a goofy hat doesn't make it performance art.

Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself.

Art is the reasoned derangement of the senses.

A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.

While appropriation art is critical to art, it's an ambiguous art form in the world of the Supreme Court.

All art is infested by other art.

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter.

The art is in preparing the content for optimal human consumption. The data doesn't just talk back to you. You collect, you analyze, you tell stories.

What really drives me mad about art is that, in America, the only thing you can do is to take it apart.

I believe that all true art is classic, but the dictates of the mind rarely permit of its being recognized as such when it first appears.

For me, art is supposed to be a question mark.

Duchamp's urinal was art once he put it in a gallery. In fact, one working definition of art is anything that is in a gallery.

All art is about appealing to emotion.

Art is so subjective--it means something different to every person. The important thing for it to do is to touch on the senses and emotions.

Collaboration is necessary for making great art. Everybody has a perspective on what they think or feel the material should ultimately look like when it hits the screen.

As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art.

Art has become more than painting, sculpture or music: art is more than Van Gogh painting a landscape or Wagner composing an opera. The whole of reality itself has become the object of art.