Quotes About Interpretation

Im not trying to do conceptual art.

Art is always of fixed, determined solutions - not things that might as well be different.

Art is ultimately schizophrenic.

If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it.

Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.

Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism.

Art is what is unnecessary, but necessary only to that artist.

art is at least in part a way of collecting information about the universe.

Art is arbitrary but it sort of reveals itself to be right or wrong anyway.

I always thought there was a - even in the most, quote, "conceptual art," there is always a physical aspect to it. I never knew what the term meant.

Art is an attempt to understand, yielding pleasure in the attempt whether or not we understand.

Works of art... do not force meanings on their audience; meaning emerges, adds up, unfolds from their imagined centres... takes one through the process of discovering meaning.

But of works of art little can be said.

There's an audience for all kinds of great art.

Art is continually working to take the crust of familiarity off everyday objects.

The job of the art is to really convey and support that empathetic response. I always try to find where the character is mushy, and then bring that to the forefront.

Art is an artificial organization of experience.

We lose ourselves in stories; that's the beauty of literary art.

Art is often confused with the skill of drawing. It is the skill of making.

The idea of content in art is today merely a hindrance, a nuisance, a subtle or not so subtle philistinism.

Art is seduction, not rape.

Art is just as comprehensible as science, but in its own terms.

Of course, in the art class, I was the model.

When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered.