Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world—in order to set up a shadow world of "meanings."

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• Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world – in order to set up a shadow world of “meanings”.
• How can one talk on the role of politics in art when art is activism. And anyway both are just a lifelong light shining through a swinging prism. From the liner notes of the "Educated Guess" album
• Most of the time I have all these thoughts bouncing around in my head, but with a brush in my hand, the world just gets kinda quiet.