Quotes About Interpretation

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless - pictures tell any story more effectively than words.

I always say I make pictures rather than take pictures.

I paint pictures with my raps.

Everybody has their thing they like or don't like to see. It's all in your head. That's why people take their own pictures, because it's difficult for someone else to capture what you seek.

I also hang the pictures low rather than high, and particularly in the case of the largest ones, often as close to the floor as is feasible, for that is the way they are painted.

I am just trying to find a way to make pictures.

I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself.

Some people take pictures; I write songs.

Literature is the stringing together of pictures in words.

Pictures are so good at giving people information that they're not looking for.

I want to make books. I want to take pictures and then write all over the pictures. And then I don't have to say a complete story, because I have the picture, and I have just a word.

With photography, you are lucky if you get people to look at your pictures at some point. There's no formal way to show them.

When people ask what 'American Pie' is about, they're missing the point. The song isn't about the lines themselves - it's about what is between the lines. The song is about what isn't there.

There's something that happens with the collection of a large amount of data when it's dumped into an Excel spreadsheet or put into a pie chart. You run the risk of completely missing what it's about.

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

I look at every piece of furniture and every object as an individual sculpture.

No one can ever create art, even on a piece of paper, as they have envisioned it in their mind.

I like fruit baskets because it gives you the ability to mail someone a piece of fruit without appearing insane. Like, if someone just mailed you an apple you'd be like, 'huh? What the hell is this?' But if it's in a fruit basket you're like, 'this is nice!'

An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.

You can be more creative in acting by bringing your character to life and bringing a piece of you that wasn't there before. You could have five different actors play one role, and all five of them would be so different because each person brings a different piece of them into it.

Layers are not difficult for me. You have the luxury of takes, so if you feel like, say, you did not take in the fact that your aunt is across the way in one take, you do it again and try to add that piece.

As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism.

I'm a big believer that an actor should be able to pick up any piece of material and act it, the way a good musician can.