Joakim Noah Quotes

Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.

Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.

I have to assume that everybody interprets a piece of art they're exposed to as if it's already perfect in its wholeness, without knowing any backstory.

Some people who've read my story think I had a terrible childhood and that I was neglected or even abused, while others feel that my parents, while certainly flawed, also had truly wonderful qualities. And that's the way it should be, because in real life two people can look at the same president and one will see a hero and the other a villain.

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

I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.

You don't have to know anything about art to appreciate it or to look at it. There aren't any hidden secrets or things that you're supposed to understand.

A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he's a craftsman, he can get other people to see the world through his eyes, and so he enlarges our vision, perception, and there's great value in that.

There's an audience for all kinds of great art.

The value of art is in the observer.

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

Art really is something very difficult. It is difficult to make, and it is sometimes difficult for the viewer to understand. It is difficult to work out what is art and what is not art.

The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.

Art is always good. It just depends if you like or not.

Different people get different things out of the images. It doesn't matter what it's about, all that matters is how it makes you feel.

You can turn something into art just because of the way you tell people to look at it.

I think you can appreciate different interpretations. Art is not a contest. I can even appreciate hearing someone play something in a way that I wouldn't.

What is art but a way of seeing?

I always hate explaining away songs, because for me they mean something, and for other people, they'll mean something absolutely different.

I admire 'Adventure Time' for being a piece of art in the way that I think art should be. If you want to see it is poetry, you can, and if you don't, you can watch a fun cartoon.