Quotes About Interpretation

If I'm doing my job correctly, I'm presenting a scenario for you as the reader to engage with on your own. I mean that's what the best art is supposed to do.

I'm interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it's nothing, and yet it's incredible.

The most useful thing about art is it's uselessness.

I collect art books. I have hundreds and hundreds of them and they get me to start hearing things. Sometimes people look at them, but I find that visual art gets me listening, gets me hearing things.

Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything else

Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose.

You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless. Therefore art is never a document, although it can adopt that style.

Art is an effort to make you walk a half an inch above ground.

Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you.

I never heard the term "art world" until I was in my thirties, and I was like, "What are you guys talking about?" It's the world, and we all live in the world!

Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen.

art, n. This word has no definition.

There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.

A large share of our art heritage is now derived from peoples whose idea of art was quite other than ours, and even from peoples to whom the very idea of art meant nothing.

Art you can flush down the loo means nothing to me, even were the loo to be selected by Marcel Duchamp

It's art that's taught me to think and to write.

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations.

He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own.

Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you.

timeliness is an enemy to art.

artists often lie behind on the field long after the art combine, the broad-bladed harvester of informed criticism, has mowed, bailed, and stored the crop.

I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but Im not a painter.

I do not think there is any question of photography being an art form!

All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.