Quotes About Interpretation

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.

I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.

We have had bird's-eye views seen by mind's eye imperfectly. Now we will have nothing less than the tracings of nature itself, reflected on the plate.

Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain.

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

The Louvre is a good book to consult, but it must only be an intermediary. The real and immense study that must be taken up is the manifold picture of nature.

All art (after Duchamp) is conceptual (in nature) because art only exists conceptually.

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.

In the first place, [his eyes] never laughed when he laughed. Have you ever noticed this peculiarity some people have? It is either the sign of an evil nature or of a profound and lasting sorrow.

My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. There's not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.

Art is stronger than Nature

Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception

Even if any given terminology is a reflection of reality, by its very nature as a terminology it must be a selection of reality; and to this extent it must function also as a deflection of reality.

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.

The purpose of art is to re-present nature, not represent it.

If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all?

It does not say in the Bible that all laws of nature are expressible linearly!

We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.

Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.

Man lives, not directly or nakedly in nature like the animals, but within a mythological universe, a body of assumptions and beliefs developed from his existential concerns.

What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty.

Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.

I think we have to recover our spiritual nature. The way we have interpreted Christianity does not do that.