Quotes About Interpretation

I don't see art as entertainment.

One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.

Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.

I see a flower. It gives me a sensation of the beautiful. I wish to paint it. And as soon as I wish to paint it I see the whole subject - flower - changed. It is now an art problem to resolve.

The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.

Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions.

And dance is wonderful because dance is so immediate.

You never really know what the director has got in his mind as far as the scene visually and art direction wise.

In reality, however, an artist is a product of art

I think you can do anything with comics that you could do in just about any art form.

The practice of "reviewing"... in general has nothing in common with the art of criticism.

All the arts are based on the senses. What they do for the person who practices them, and also the persons interested in them, is make that particular sense more active and more acute.

My art has gained some high value.

Art for art's sake. [Lat., Ars gratia artis.]

I think after music is performance because it is also an immaterial form of art, and then there's everything else.

The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them.

Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.

I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.

Most of the faint intimations of immortality of which we are occasionally aware would seem to arise out of Art or the materials of Art.

The ultimate politeness in art consists of speaking only to those who are able to uncover and measure its relationships. Anything else is symbolic, and symbolism is merely transcendental imagery.

There is no best anything in art.

Habitual texters may not only cheat their existing relationships, they can also limit their ability to form future ones since they don't get to practice the art of interpreting nonverbal visual cues.

Everybody has a direct view of the person "behind" the art, so there is going to be a certain amount of awareness of who is making songs. But I like paintings where you can see the brush-strokes.

There are many, many art worlds. Art contains multitudes.