Quotes About Interpretation

Beauty is in the behind of the beholder!

There is beauty in everything, Just not everybody sees it

For me, a painting must give off sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem.

How people interpret my degrees of sexiness is out of my hands.

Philosophers and aestheticians may offer elegant and profound definitions of art and beauty, but for the painter they are all summed up in the phrase: To create a harmony.

Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit.

My idea was to chose an object that wouldn't attract me, either by its beauty or by its ugliness. To find a point of indifference in my looking at it, you see

An object of art creates a public capable of finding pleasure in its beauty. Production, therefore, not only produces an object for the subject, but also a subject for the object.

Beauty seems to strike some people as a personal affront.

Where does beauty begin? Where does it end? Where it ends is where the artist begins.

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.

Shouldn't it give us pause that the oldest works of art are as impressive today in their beauty and spontaneity as they were many thousands of years ago?

Beauty is very much in the mind of the beholder.

They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but us sheep know, true beauty is not in the eye: it lives in the mind.

Even though Prince wasn't rapping and it was a whole different era, it shows how artists expressed themselves without saying too much, and that was the real beauty of the art.

Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.

Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.

Beauty plus pity -- that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

The word 'beauty' is as easy to use as the word 'degenerate.' Both come in handy when one does or does not agree with you