A Quote by Moshe Kupferman
For me, art begins when there is something left that cannot be explained.
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In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that cannot be explained.
A work of art doesn't have to be explained. If you do not have any feeling about this, I cannot explain it to you. If this doesn't touch you, I have failed.
Something that cannot be explained cannot be seen.
It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.
What interests me about clocks is that everything is hand-made, and yet to the person looking at the clock, something magical is happening that cannot be explained unless you are the clockmaker.
I think art is beautiful. It's decoration and adornment. But art is also a really important vessel for social change, and social change begins with thought. And so if you can find humor in something and take a moment to rethink it, you can take a step back and look at your values from a different angle. I think that's a really important way of carrying on with life. I think the best art for me is funny and the best comedy for me is art. Some of my favorite artists are comedians. Comedy is art, and art can be comedy, and the intersection is vital - at least for my own work.
I am interested in doing something that cannot be explained.
Like great art, something essential dies when great jokes are explained. So what's the key to telling a good joke/creating great art timing.
Perhaps there may come into my art also, no less than into my life, a still deeper note, one of greater unity of passion, and directness of impulse. Not width but intensity is the true aim of modern art. We are no longer in art concerned with the type. It is with the exception that we have to do. I cannot put my sufferings into any form they took, I need hardly say. Art only begins where Imitation ends, but something must come into my work, of fuller memory of words perhaps, of richer cadences, of more curious effects, of simpler architectural order, of some aesthetic quality at any rate.
Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature.
There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.
Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else.
Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.
The healing of our relationship with place begins with the preservation of the natural environment. We cannot go to the wild for renewal if no wilderness is left.
There must be something good in a thing that pleases so many; even if it cannot be explained, it is certainly enjoyed.
I think all art - if it's good - is a result of really trying to create something that you can't put into words. Where language ends is where good art begins.
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