Quotes About Interpretation

Film and art are close together.

Take a quart of nature, boil it down to a pint, and the residue is art.

It sounds kind of flighty, filmmaker-y, but I believe films are a piece of art. They are meant to be what they're meant to be, and sometimes the artist is informed by the film of what it needs to be.

You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're two really different art forms.

Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.

Mathematics is only the art of saying the same thing in different words.

I don't believe that you can put content into art. The content is in yourself.

If you take pictures does that make you an art thief?

The proper use of commas is often more art than science.

Western art has a certain relationship to nature.

When you make art, those things change shape into something else. It's transformation into a body of different visual elements.

Art does not explain.

What does a painter do? You get a painting, you put some intent and passion and emotion into these things, and hope the people will receive it. Same as a playwright. It's art.

I can't wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it.

If you're wandering the streets, talking in gibberish, nobody ever asks you to change anything about your art because there's no context for people to look at what you do.

I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art.

It's easy to say "This year in art sucked." After all, about 85 percent of all shows of contemporary art are bad. But 85 percent of all art made in the Renaissance was bad.

The realm of classical music is so vast - not only in terms of style but of era, age and the purposes for which it was composed - it is an enormous art form.

Entertainment provides relief. Art provokes engagement.

Ideally, each piece of art's its own unique object, and its evaluation's always present-tense.

All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.

People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.

Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.

I feel like really thinking about art and really appreciating it and learning the language of it just makes you more of a connoisseur. I believe that.