Good Quote by Charles Ray

In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make…

— Susan Sontag

I feel that works of art are an opportunity for people to construct meaning, so I don't usually tell what they mean. It conveys…

— Jasper Johns

What the work of art looks like isn't too important. It has to look like something if it has a physical form. No matter…

— Sol LeWitt

It is a pity to make a mystery out of what should most easily be understood. There is nothing occult about the thought that…

— Oscar Wilde

Almost every work of art is an analogy. When I make a representation of something, this too is an analogy to what exists; I…

— Gerhard Richter

Today is such a time, when the project of interpretation is largely reactionary, stifling. Like the fumes of the automobile and of heavy industry…

— Susan Sontag

Works of art are viewed by people. They are heard by people. They are felt by people. They are not just the fodder of…

— L. Ron Hubbard

I think that other people covering my work is really exciting... Im really open to that kind of thing because I think interpretation is…

— Tori Amos

The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.

— Takeshi Kitano

When I view the world, I don't think of my own work. I think of my hope that, through art, people can get a…

— Jeff Koons

You work on an idea, your first interpretation is very raw and you work it and you work it and it gets polished and…

— Kim Weston

That your own interpretation of a work of art is flagrantly subjective seems to be regarded as an arrogant attitude. But the truer view…

— Tyrone Guthrie