Quotes About Interpretation

Artists are interested in pictures as sources of ideas for their work. Where the pictures come from and how they are made is of little concern to them.

It's funny when you put music up against picture, and all your preconceptions go away, and you start over. You just realize that that doesn't work at all.

Each story has a different approach for me and I try to work with lighting that will tell you visually the story better than if it was shot in available light.

I don't believe that you can possibly separate expression from thought in an imaginative work. The better a thing is expressed, the more completely it is thought.

[My pots ] are not like [Hans] Coper's at all, but the idea came from seeing catalogue of his work, although at the time we knew Hans, his work was nothing like that.

If continually people look and look and always come away enriched, then it's a great work

The fictional work is a kind of actor that wears a satirical garb but can put on other costumes as well.

A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.

As artists, the pleasure is to really have your work resonate and mean something. Art takes its inspiration from reality.

When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.

You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'

If people call your work perceptible, be it in positive or negative terms, do ask them about what made them draw that conclusion.

A good artist makes imaginations real!

Every work of art tells a story.

God is not all that interested in your grammar. He is interested in the meaning of your grammar!

A great director gives life to a work of art- gives it a heartbeat… a pulse… opens its eyes to the world.

See the world anew and write down the bones of it.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

Sometimes I don't even know what to name a song when I get done with it, and I'll let somebody else tell me what I should call it because it's whatever stuck in their head.

Auditions are an opportunity to play and go in there and bring the character to life. The writers have it stuck in their head and haven't seen it jump off the page.

The danger in playing a piece over and over again lies in getting stuck in a rut where you don't ask questions anymore and you always play it the same way.

I don't like getting stuck into someone's definition of what you can or can't do with a story.

Being a good Hans Haacke student, part of his influence on me is that there's no difference between a gallery show and a film - or even an ad and a T-shirt-in terms of cultural legitimacy. They're just different contexts in which to have some sort of communication.

I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.