Art Quote by Gerhard Richter

Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures. A picture…

— Gerhard Richter

I really don't like art where you need to know so much theory to understand. If the theory is removed, it doesn't do anything.…

— Marina Abramovic

A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.

— E. W. Howe

“Interpretation, based on the highly dubious theory that a work of art is composed of items of content, violates art.”

— Susan Sontag

In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them.

— Maurice de Vlaminck

Interpretation, based on the highly dubious theory that a work of art is composed of items of content, violates art. It makes art into…

— Susan Sontag

We are surrounded by pictures; we have an abundance of theories about them, but it doesn't seem to do us any good. Knowing what…

— William J. Mitchell

“Among the hardest problems an art theory faces are questions about how to settle art’s meaning through interpretation”

— Cynthia Freeland

Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.

— Mason Cooley

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we're writing, something comes through…

— Jorge Luis Borges