Alison Jackson Quotes

People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.

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.

My artwork is in order to seduce people into thinking.

Condemning art as manipulative is a non sequitur, of course. All art is manipulative.

Many billboards and magazine ads have resorted to showing isolated body parts rather than full-body portraits of models using or wearing products. This style of photography, known in the industry as abstract representation, allows the viewer to see himself in the advertisement, rather than the model.

With most of the songs and music that I've composed, irrespective of the myriad videos made, I was always careful not to overly define the experience, leaving room for people to internalize things for themselves, making their experience more integral.

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

You make a movie, and if somebody reads something into it, then great, more power to him.

I was literally told for 'The Show Goes On' that I shouldn't rap too deep. I shouldn't be too lyrical. It just needs to be something easy on the eyes. Like a record company telling Picasso that we don't need these abstract interpretations of life, where people have to sit down and look at it and break it down.

But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why it is you want to take pictures and what it is you want to say.

Commercials capture your attention, that's all.

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.

It's fun as a creator to make something that allows multiple interpretations.

My idea is to paint paintings so that when you walk into a room, I'm pulling you in, or that makes you suddenly stop and wonder: 'What is this? There is something groovy, something else going on here.' Also, I want to give you what is obvious and what is not obvious to the eye.

My being bought as a politically outspoken artist is a more potent advertising tool for Apple than a 100 more explicit ads.

You can't believe your own marketing.

I just want to make cool art work that has some meaning.

I think there's art, and then there's illustration. Art comes from a deeper place.

Being a creative person. It's so much more rewarding when you find things on your own, to live whatever the writers are writing or to display what the director is looking for. You are the thing that everybody uses to get the story out.

People will say things after a screening that it affects them in a certain way, which is why I don't like to explain what certain things are about. I want them to have that. It limits people's ability to understand something if I say it's "about this." That's happened to us a bunch on this.

I don't think you need to be so result-oriented when you're trying to define the success of an art work. I think we can allow some unpredictability.

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

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.

Color was not given to us in order that we should imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our emotions.

Hopefully this is going to be a trend, the beginning of a movement to reclaim theater for the artist and not commerce. I think there's a level of fatigue. Artists are tired of having to create work that's then coopted by commercial demands. When you begin souping up the car, the car no longer feels like your own.