Quotes About Interpretation

The artist is the only one qualified to criticize his art, because only the artist knows what he was trying to express and how satisfied he is with the attempt.

If you don't understand it, it's art.

If a picture paints a thousand words, then a let a picture inspire a thousand words.

The art is not, to tell. The art is, not to tell.

Just give me a thousand words and you may make your own pictures.

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.Piet MondrianThe Artist's Way A Spiritual Path to Greater Creativity by Julia Cameron

The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.

If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

every good artist paints what he is

The inner drama is the meaning of the exterior event.

...What I depend on is a vigorous audience that can discover sweetness and light, beauty and truth, beyond the ability of the artist, on his own, to create them.

It comforted him because it could not be called suffering if it was a sign of Art.

I think that's what art is: art is communication made in the hope that interesting miscommunications will arise.

Don't we all know that art is dangerous. You play it - then you live it.

cease to regard the canvas as a surface on which to paint a picture, but instead as a surface on which to record an event

However, as words become particularized, and as men begin - in however small a way - to use them in personal, arbitrary ways, so their transformation into art begins.

But maybe that's how it is with art. You suffer, and in the end, everyone thinks it's cool.

The notes I can handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes-ah, that is where the art resides.

Colour is a matter of personal opinion.

If you judge art by its cover, you efface the very essence of it