Quotes About Interpretation

Chopin's rubato possessed an unshakeable emotional logic. It always justified itself by a strengthening or weakening melodic line, by exaggeration or affectation.

The one thing you can do that the audience can't do - all those smart people online in the chat rooms can't do - is deliver a satisfying emotional journey for a human being, for a character.

In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.

All art is concerned with the creation of an emotional reaction on the part of the beholder.

The way one sees is also dependent upon one's emotional state of mind. This is why a motif can be looked at in so many ways, and this is what makes art so interesting.

I do not deal with the text [of the Bible] scientifically. I read it, I'm interested in its layers of meaning, but my relation to it is much more an emotional one.

The art of one period cannot be approached through the attitudes (emotional or intellectual) of another.

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one.

People have different ideas, emotional ideas, of what certain words mean, and they think of irony as something that's more associated with being cynical-it's kind of a put-down.

Everytime I play something for someone there is an emotional thing that happens that guides me.

Novels may have taken care of the emotional business for me, which has allowed music to be more emotional for me.

...let the emotional weight of a scene rest on the dialogue wherever possible. This is the easy way to avoid overinterpretation, which seems to be what turns a scene from sympathetic to sentimental.

A river, though, has so many things to say that it is hard to know what it says to each of us.

Observations always involve theory.

Some critics claim to know what art has to be and do, and consider it their task to steer art along the path they have chosen. Others receive art gladly, and try to distinguish degrees of excellence.

It seems then that it is not the excellence of any two things (or more) in themselves, but those two things as viewed by the light of each other, that makes beauty.

[W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal.

A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.

My desire is to set up a situation to which I take you and let you see. It becomes your experience.

You bring to a painting your own experience.

There is a total incompatibility between the joy of reading, a vagabond experience, and the experience of reading in order to answer questions, and explain what you understood.

The artist invites the spectator to take a journey within the realm of the canvas... Without taking the journey, the spectator has really missed the essential experience of the picture.

Science provides an understanding of a universal experience, and arts provides a universal understanding of a personal experience.