Quotes About Interpretation

I have a really analytical approach to art. And the whole idea that you can't analyze what makes a joke funny...I do not agree with that at all.

Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.

I tend to get very suspicious of anything that thinks it's art while it's being created.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Any art which can be subjected to an analytical process is, by this very fact, removed from the possibility of being art.

Art for art's sake is dead, if it ever lived.

Art feels like it has this frame, and it's either outside or inside.

Anyone who presumes to teach art has no understanding of it.

Precepts, conventions - above all traditions - have no value in art.

for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.

For me, I see filmmaking as art.

I learned how to have a little bit of distance when I explained songs and a little bit of distance when I wrote them. I think this is more interesting any way in art.

A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question.

I think we [with Riccardo Tisci] share a sensibility about art - we pull from the ancient future.

Making reality real is art's responsibility.

To open up the new, to look back on the old may bring forth like discoveries in the practice of art.

One of my favorite things about art, especially at a gallery, is hearing people talk about the art. I find it quite amusing.

Art has more ego to it than what I do.

The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.

A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.

Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.

The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.

You could say science also is an art.

Art depends upon the inexactitude of sight.