Quotes About Interpretation

Art can sometimes be separate from the artist.

Poetry is the only art people haven't learned to consume like soup.

If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.

If we see an object as a bowl, it may inhibit seeing it as craft, just as seeing it as craft might inhibit seeing it as art. See first; name later.

Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.

It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?

What has reason to do with the art of painting?

Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

There are only two styles of portrait painting: the serious and the smirk.

I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. It's art if you see it as art.

Art is what you get away with

art is never finished, only abandoned

Good artists exist simply in what they make and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

We should comport ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages - stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.

It's clever but is it art?

I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.

All good art is political. Between the lines of every book, the author implants messages for the unsuspecting reader. If not, what point does it serve?

All portraits reveal both the the painter and the person painted. In many ways all paintings are self-portraits. All part of why art informs.

If art's a seismographic project, when that project meets with failure, failure must become the subject too.

Art manifests itself in paradoxical ways. At times it creates and at times it gets created!

Judging art is like caging a bird. Instead of seeing it soar, you can only watch it flutter.

A painting is worth a thousand confused art-gallery visitors.