Quotes About Interpretation

Any time you write history, you insert your opinion. You pick and choose what you are going to write about. I feel really happy not inserting myself. I spend too much of my life inserting myself. It's just great to let other people carry the narrative.

The level on which Japan seems to have picked up on my music seems to be on a more abstract level.

Some basic things I have picked up from Dad is how to interpret my character correctly, use the camera to my advantage and how not to hurry up with work.

So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in places I thought might be interesting, so it was a real neat collaboration among the three of us.

I really enjoy picking up the physical rhythm of somebody else, speaking with their voice. I've never done in anything in my own voice, and I can't imagine what that would be like. It would be weird, I guess.

Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

The more ways you can tell a story and paint a picture, the better it is.

A picture is a fact.

I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.

When I take a picture I take 10 percent of what I see.

If you paint a picture and I paint a picture, we each want to do it our own way. And we'll stand or fall on whatever we did.

That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.

Everyone is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another.

Since the model he so faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture... it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model.

The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.

I have to experiment with methods and I'm trying to find an authentic way of making an equivalent of the living, breathing person within the limits of a single picture.

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

I don't understand art-speak. My pictures are big doodles. I'm amazed what people come up with when they look at them. There's one of a figure with two heads that somebody thought must be a comment on the state of matrimony. None of it is a comment on anything.

As a boy, I used to look upon the hieroglyphics as so many wonderful pictures.

I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story with pictures - I don't illustrate the story with the pictures.

The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.

Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?