Quotes About Interpretation

I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.

You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over.

An artist is only an exemplary person if you can see in his works how life goes.

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.

In my own life, I share my home with works by artists like Elizabeth Murray, Martin Puryear, Jackie Windsor and so many others, whose creativity is clear and fresh and compelling; the works break through the usual, and they inspire creativity; they inspire responses and understanding.

I wish to add my mite towards expounding & interpreting the Almighty, & his laws & works, for the most effective use of mankind; and certainly, I should feel it no small glory if I were enabled to be one of his most noted prophets (using this word in my own peculiar sense) in this world.

People think that what I see diving must drive what I put into films, but that isn't really the case. When I am making a Hollywood production, I am telling a different kind of story. Of course, if I see something interesting that works, we will look at it, but they are different things.

The best works do not necessarily get to auction. I like to draw, so maybe I give you a little drawing. And then eventually it ends up at auction. And then critics say, 'Oh, that's a bad drawing!' Well, I didn't say it was so wonderful.

It's such a strange marriage, a song and someone that sings it. When that works, it really works, and when it doesn't, it doesn't.

We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves.

I tell my workshop students, 'I want you to think of yourselves as artists. Then, when you're writing, you're painting, you're crafting, you're making a design, you're sculpting, you're creating choreography, sound, a sound script.'

Because when you're in drama school, you're playing multiple characters at once. You know, in the morning you're doing a Chekhov play, and then you're doing a Shakespeare workshop midday.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.

I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.

Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.

Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We're all limited by our perspective.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of the world by telling stories.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Everything in this world has a hidden meaning.

Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.