Quotes About Interpretation

It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.

I never make studies from nature. They would get in the way. I make use of my mind.

All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.

A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.

I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.

The absolutist takes himself to read nature in her very own language, but the relativist insists that nature does not speak, and we hear only what we have elected to hear.

Paul Valery speaks of the 'une ligne donnee' of a poem. One line is given to the poet by God or by nature, the rest he has to discover for himself.

I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.

An experiment in nature, like a text in the Bible, is capable of different interpretations, according to the preconceptions of the interpreter.

My only ambition was to create an honest picture that would interpret nature as she really is, as she ought to be seen.

There's a quote from Hamlet that is my guide... He tells the players not to exaggerate but to hold a mirror up to nature. Don't overdo it, don't underdo it. Do it just on the line.

The eye transmits its own image through the air to all the objects which face it, and also receives them on its own surface, whence the "sensus communis" takes them and considers them.

One is neither too scrupulous nor too sincere nor too submissive to nature; but one is more or less master of one's model, and, above all, of the means of expression.

What one approves , another scorns, And thus his nature each discloses: You find the rosebush full of thorns, I find the thornbush full of roses.

The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it.

An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his

Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

It seems to me that when I see nature I see it ready-made, completely written - but then, try to do it!

It's human nature to find patterns where there are none and to find skill where luck is a more likely explanation (particularly if you're the lucky manager).

The pleasure derived from viewing the achievements of others, coupled with a true appreciation of nature, sharpens the desire to express pictorially.

One reproduces only that which is striking; that is to say, the necessary. Thus, one's recollections and inventions are liberated from the tyranny which nature exerts.

Nature is usually wrong.