Quotes About Interpretation

Whatever is going on in your life when you're writing has to somehow seep into your work.

a work that intends to be art must first be entertaining.

Most of the history is a divine work of fiction.

I'm fully capable of multitasking certain conceptual concerns within the work.

You have to bring books to explain your work.

It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work.

Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.

There are always a lot of leading questions and opinions. Of course, our work is creative, and it's subjective.

Contemplating a purported work of art is a social activity. Either you have a rewarding time, or you don't. You don't have to say why afterward. You don't have to say anything.

With abstract work, I never was quite sure what it was that felt right about the painting, but I did know that I responded to it and I liked whatever it was offering me.

The way you present your work has a lot to do with how people receive and regard it.

To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.

As a reader I gravitate toward work that rests in the gray area, that doesn't come with easy answers.

I was aware that people thought a certain type of photo work was either stealing, borrowing, copying or dumb.

One of the things I find most mysterious in Picasso's work is what I would call the 'unlocation of place.

Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone.

Yes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original.

You could say this word is better to use than that word, this sentence is good and that sentence isn't. But you don't determine the value of your work for other people.

I come from a generation where you put the art out and had the luxury to sit back and watch the world deconstruct it, and that was valued. Unfortunately now the work lives in a weird context.

the artist is not separate from the work and therefore cannot judge it.

Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?

What works in one medium does not necessarily always work in the other.

Very rarely do I work on mechanics now. I tend to solve problems within the music itself.

A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is.