Open-Ended Art Quotes

I always believed that my work should be unfinished in the sense that I encourage people to add their creativity to it, either conceptually or physically. Back in the 1960s, I was calling for 'Unfinished Music,' number one, and number two, with my artwork - I was taking unfinished work into the gallery. And that's how I was looking at it.

I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.

A masterpiece doesn't push you around. It lets you make up your own mind about what it means - and change it as often as you like.

I mean, the type of art that I enjoy is art that - I enjoy a very broad spectrum, but I especially like art that leaves me a little confused and uncertain as to what just happened.

I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.

You make an open-ended proposition and the audience completes it somehow. That’s what you hope an artwork to be-a constantly living thing.

You know, I just don't believe that art is supposed to make sense. I really don't think it's supposed to be analyzed to death. It's left to the listener or looker to get what they can get from it.

If I'm creating a free-form piece of art, I can make it look like anything I want, and nobody will say it's wrong.

I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It's fun to see what they'll say it is.

Art should be perceived as subjectively as possible, and if anyone wants to see something in 'Belus' that I had not planned, that is fine.