Wesley Morris Quotes

A movie is just like a work of art or a book or a piece of music. The intent of its maker is one thing, but its interpretation by an audience is something else. I don't stop at what the filmmaker wanted to do.

It's not my job to tell people what a work means.

I'd always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn't.

One doesn't need to know the artist's private intentions. The work tells all.

I have intentions as a writer, but people - when they're listening to a track - will take from it what they interpret.

It would be a dangerous undertaking for persons trained only to the law to constitute themselves final judges of the worth of [a work], outside of the narrowest and most obvious limits. At the one extreme some works of genius would be sure to miss appreciation. Their very novelty would make them repulsive until the public had learned the new language in which their author spoke.

Viewing abstract art requires more imagination. The result is more intense involvement of the viewer—more pleasurable.

I try not to spend too much time interpreting my comics for people, because I try to put out there whatever I can, and people can draw whatever conclusions they want.

Art is an amazing form of being able to share our experiences and tell stories and hopefully relate to other people, but you don't know how everyone else is always going to react to what you put out there.

The role of art in society is not to resolve conflicts; rather, it is to express these conflicts and antagonisms.

It's intimidating any time to have a piece of art that someone else created, and that person says, 'Let's see what you created based on what I created.'

Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political act.

I always say that cinema reflects life, not the other way round.

When you make a film, everyone wants to define it.

The music should speak for itself, and hopefully it will.

Cinema is not Bible writing. It doesn't teach you morals, good values to live. Cinema is not meant for that. If you're looking at cinema that it'll tell you good values then you're mistaken.

I am not a propagandist; my work has often had a political dimension but, hopefully, one that is not didactic and is open to interpretation.

Cinema has a large scope as it is a mirror of society and with the mindset changing, people are taking it more seriously.

As an artist, I am here to get involved in meaningful films. But that does not mean only films like 'Arabikkadha' should be made. If you give an overdose of such films, the subject will become jaded.

People who create art would be fools to assume they know exactly what people are going to think of it.

Those of us who work in the arts know that depiction is not endorsement. If it was, no artist would be able to paint inhumane practices, no author could write about them, and no filmmaker could delve into the thorny subjects of our time.

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.

I think the music reflects the state that the society is in. It doesn't suggest the state. I think the poets and musicians and artists are of the age - not only do they lead the age on, but they also reflect that age. [...] Like The Beatles. We came out of Liverpool and we reflected our background and we reflected our thoughts in what we sang, and that's all people are doing.

I also feel like it's the right of the people hearing them to have their own interpretations of what these songs mean. Sometimes people will see things that I don't see.