Quotes About Interpretation

Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument.

I don't want to hear at all what the artist thinks about his art. And I'm not writing for the artist. I'm writing for the reader, and I want to tell the reader what I think.

In the arts there are many right answers.

Performance became part of my art in a way - expressing things and emotion.

The artist had captured a moment that went on suggesting other moments in the mind of the beholder. This, Timmon told me, was what every painter, every singer, every craftsman sought to create.

Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It's easier and sociabler to talk technique than it is to make art.

If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.

Our thoughts, our language, are always at a distance from whatever they're trying to describe. We have other kinds of languages, like mathematics, like music, like art, but there's always that gap.

Design provides solutions, art asks questions.

Eloquence is heard; poetry is overheard ... All poetry is of the nature of the soliloquy.

What one person might see as violent, someone else may see as beautiful. Maybe even art.

Without art; without paintings, books, sculpture and music, the human soul would be quite impenetrable, don't you think?

I try not to make any boundaries. I try to let all art influence me.

The greatest works of literature seem to embody both "art" and "morality".

My study of religion, which I regard in many ways as an art form, is a search for meaning.

I think music can definitely be art; I also think music can be crap and not be art.

I expect art to make me scream, art to reveal soul.

The great artist takes what he needs.

As someone who has been asked to ask David Lynch what his movies mean for 25 years, I'm very careful about asking artists what their art means.

When I see a beautiful piece of art, it inspires me to be creative.

Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and expresses it by certain external signs.

In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.