Quotes About Interpretation

My father said that artists see the world differently than normal people. I see a tree where you mights see a collection of lines, shapes, and shadows.

Who knows when a trenchant line becomes a human face?

This is almost always the case: A piece of art receives its f(r)ame when found offensive.

Artists are not in delusion, they only recreate the hidden side

Musicians are artists, as silence is their canvas.

All literature and popular art contain themes that resonate with the audience.

Art is a consciousness-provoking vessel.

A high self-esteem having artist works hard to be understood. A low self-esteem having artist works hard to be agreed with.

Nicole Brossard, White Piano

Do not justify art, once you do, it limits the feelings it is apt to inflict. Art with Boundaries shadows all its principles.

Be an artist, in whatever little faculty possible.For the Earth, without 'Art' is just 'Eh

Perfection in art is a crime against humanity. Perfect humanity in crime is art

Sometimes we do grip the concert in a human head, and so hold it that in a way we get a record of it into paint, but the vision and expressing of one day will not do for the next.

The present is only faced in any generation by the artist.

Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract.

If an artist is not only he who sings or paints, but he who express himself by words or drawing then I can consider myself as one.

Me: "All right, but you said we had to put emotion into our art. I don't know what that means. I don't know what I'm supposed to feel.

I've never thought of writing as the mere arrangement of words on the page but the attempted embodiment of a vision

Art is fire plus algebra.

Art is personal, criticism shouldn't be.

I look for ambiguity because life is ambiguous!

Art is unpredictable.

Art corrupts. Absolute art corrupts absolutely. Please corrupt me absolutely.

Philosophers tell you what they think. Artists show you.