Quotes about Interpretation
You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
— Milan Kundera
The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean.
— Walt Disney
Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.
— GK Chesterton
Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions.
— Gloria Steinem
I believe that art has incredible power.
— Gloria Steinem
If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject.
— Madeleine L'Engle
All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
— Pablo Picasso