Varg Vikernes Quotes

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

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

What I like doing is imagery that can be interpreted in any particular way by the person who wears it.

I think everything's fair in art and how you perceive a character.

When you draw or paint a tree, you do not imitate the tree; you do not copy it exactly as it is, which would be mere photography. To be free to paint a tree or a flower or a sunset, you have to feel what it conveys to you: the significance, the meaning of it.

I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.

Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.

There are websites of 'True Detective' artwork out there now, and it's beautiful. And I don't want to take that away from anybody. I know what it means to me. But I don't want to take away anyone's interpretation of the show.

I like to interpret 'Call me a River', as if I'm saying, 'Now you're telling me you love me after all that, and I'm telling you to shove off.' That's my interpretation. But I would never 'say' that because somebody else might interpret the song in another way.

When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't.

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

Music is an expression of individuality; it's how you see the world. All art is, for that matter. You take how you experience the world, interpret it, and send it out there - express it - whether it's sculpture, dance or singing.

The songs are about things that we were thinking and we wrote 'em down, and when you listen to 'em, whatever you think it's about... THAT'S what it's about!

I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively.

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.

Not all paintings are abstract; they're not all Jackson Pollock. There's value in a photograph of a man alone on a boat at sea, and there is value in painting of a man alone on a boat at sea. In the painting, the painting has more freedom to express an idea, more latitude in being able to elicit certain emotion.

I'm just singing a song, and if people want to laugh, that's their business.

The one thing about art is you can't question it. Everyone is looking at everyone else to find out what's cool. No one knows what's cool.

Every time we do anything artistic, the way it's perceived is always going to be different from the way that we had intended it to be because it's subjective.

I would never undermine a person's interpretation of a creative work.

Nowhere in the job description of an artist is the requirement that I must validate your taste.

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

As artists, we can't help but infuse our art with our own experience, so your experience becomes informative.

Musicians are also interpretive artists and we are just as creative as painters and writers. We interpret in a way that expresses ourselves.

Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.