Quotes About Interpretation

The reason I do photographs is to help people understand my music, so it's very important that I am the same, emotionally, in the photographs as in the music. Most people's eyes are much better developed than their ears. If they see a certain emotion in the photograph, then they'll understand the music.

Photographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.

But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.

There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.

Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.

Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.

A lot of people who look at my photographs think it is an easy joke, but it does take a bit of thinking about.

You can't see fear or lust; you can't photograph someone's anxieties, how disappointment feels. Photographs are approximations.

We musicians often get inspiration from films and books or photographs, not only by music.

I have been told that some of my photographs maybe indicate that I am a painter.

Photography is about finding things. And painting is different - it's about making something.

All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.

I'm very interested in the language of photography in relationship to painting.

I was always interested in photography and other forms of art.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

I try to consider each body of work on its own terms, discretely, so terms like 'sculpture' or 'photography', in their broad sense, don't really enter into my thinking.

Increasingly, the work I'm doing is in service to an idea rather than just to see what something looks like photographed. I'm trying to explore how I feel about something through photography.

I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.

The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.

Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

I've always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception.

My directors of photography light my films, but the colours of the sets, furnishings, clothes, hairstyles - that's me. Everything that's in front of the camera, I bring you.

I don't think there is a movie that I've been on that I wasn't sure I could direct it better. But certainly also, as a director of photography, I have to serve the movie in whatever way I can as a filmmaker.

Photography brought a lot to painting because it forced artists to think about what painting could do that photography couldn't.