Quotes About Interpretation

You can turn something into art just because of the way you tell people to look at it.

I think you put art out into the world, and sometimes it's divisive, sometimes it's embraced. Sometimes people cry, laugh or have complicated reactions.

There's that saying, "I don't know art, but I know what I like." The inverse is kind of true. I know art, but I don't know what I like. You get so immersed in it that nothing appeals to you.

The art of not playing in tempo--one has to learn it. And the art of not playing what is written on the printed paper.

What's my dilemma here? Am I making entertainment or am I making art? What am I saying? At the end of the day, cinema is entertainment for millions of people, but for me it's expression.

It is one of the ironies of biographical art that some details are more relevant than others, and many details have no relevance at all.

I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done.

There is, in any art, a tendency to turn one's own preferences into a monomaniac theory.

History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art.

Photography has always been a struggle for me to take seriously as an art form.

I wanted to represent the world as a temporary art installation continuously changing. I wanted to consider it unreal and unfinished, judge and transform it, a possibility that only art gives us.

I don't really see art as structured by logic.

The eye is the best of artists.

It depends little on the object, much on the mood, in art.

A good piece of art raises questions.

Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it? Was it worth doing?

If you want to know about what's good in art, you should talk to an artist.

I heard someone say he [Carl Sandburg] was the kind of writer who had everything to gain and nothing to lose by being translated into another language.

No art goes unmediated by other art.

Despite its scientific pretensions, economics still remains more of an art than a science

If a nonartist teaches a subject called art, it is nonart.

Photography is art when it's used by an artist.

Art forms render ideas accessible to readers who could not receive those insights in any other format.

Art itself is underserved when we don't realize the power of it.