Quotes About Interpretation

It's absurd to talk about paintings that you haven't finished.

I think that has been a benefit to me because I think most people understand quilts and not a lot of people understand paintings. But yet they're looking at one.

Sometimes people only see horrible, terrible things in my paintings.

Being a creative person, I'm naturally drawn towards art of any kind. But I'm more attracted to paintings because they radiate an aura of their own.

When you're working on a film, it's almost like photographing paintings at a museum. You're photographing somebody else's world. I just try and interpret it and make it real, and make it what the actors are about, what the director is about, and what the film is about.

I don't dare to think my paintings are great. I can't understand the arrogance of someone saying, 'I have created a big, important work.'

I've dreamed landscapes for years, and my dreams play an enormous role in my work. In fact, when I first started doing landscapes I felt insecure about painting in this style, and the dreams were like positive omens for me, and I've done a few paintings that were exact replicas of images that came to me in dreams.

What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.

I love art, in particular, paintings. I have, well, a lot.

I think of film when I paint. Even the luminosity that I always keep working for is really about film. But my idea is not to paint paintings that will decorate somebody's house.

Do cave paintings mean anything? Not really, but I, for one, am happy to have them.

If you look at ancient Chinese paintings, you see mountains, but they are not real mountains; it is something the artists imagined.

I think it's absurd to believe that movies should look like paintings and say something like serious books say something.

I gave up on the idea of making art a long time ago, because I wanted to know how to make paintings; but once I came to know that, reconsidering the question of what art is returned as a critical issue.

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.

There's just something creatively fulfilling about watching a movie and writing a song for it because it helps you put on another pair of shoes.

I always said your best palate is your own, not mine. I'm a guidepost.

'English Rose' - what does that actually mean? That I am pale? That I am English, maybe? They are going to say that about any actress from this country!

I've always loved the poetry in 'Pale Fire.' I think it's wonderful.

I don't like to have to pan for gold when I read.

Actually, what I did, because I couldn't make sense of it, and I have to have lyrics that make sense, I decided the best way to sing 'I Have Confidence' was to go completely nuts with panic and fear.

Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes.

I truly enjoy directing. I enjoy looking at the words on the paper and visualizing how to make them come to life.

I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.