Quotes About Context

Albers celebrated the way that color and line have no truth of their own; what matters is their perception, which depends on what is adjacent to them.

The comparative strength of each piece depends entirely on circumstance; their movements are so different that it is essentially impossible to effectively compare them on anything other than a case-by-case basis.

I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.

As a jazz musician, you have individual power to create the sound. You also have a responsibility to function in the context of other people who have that power also.

Naturally, my body language changes given whatever environment I'm in.

seeing Christ as central compels us to always try to make sense of everything we read in any part of scripture in light of our larger knowledge of who God is in Jesus Christ.

It does appear, then, that what you find in the landscape of the Old Testament when you 'get there' very much depends on whom you take with you and through whose eyes you view it.

It is vitally important that we pay attention to the narrative framework in which the Old Testament laws are set.

I am not inclined to use hip-hop vernacular often, but there are times when, like French, it just better expresses the sentiment of the moment

Meine Gunst? Ich sagte, er sei kein kompletter Schwachmat. Das ist keine Gunst, das ist nur ein wohlwollender Vergleich mit all den anderen, von denen du umgeben bist

Thus, when we read Genesis we are reading an ancient document and should begin by using only the assumptions that would be appropriate for the ancient world. We must understand how the ancients thought and what ideas underlay their communication

He experienced that thrilling social vertigo that accompanies total freedom in a context of pointlessness.

Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges.

Here, then, is another proposition: The medium is not the message; the message becomes what the receiver makes of it, applying to it his own codes of reception, which are neither those of the sender nor those of the scholar of communications.

What's that got to do with anything?

There always exists a context that is capable of reproposing as new a codified catachresis or dead metaphor.

When one has a text to question, it is irrelevant to ask the author.

Dire che un testo virtualmente non ha limiti non significa che ogni atto interpretativo possa avere un esito felice. Per

The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why, and how it is said.

In recent years scholars and costume curators have increasingly realized that fashion must be placed firmly within its cultural and historical context;the study of dress cannot be separated from women's history, for example.

It was simply a matter of timing and perspective, what one saw.

I would love to be erased from our association with Pearl Jam or the Nymphs and other first time offenders.

Every psychological event depends upon the state of the person and at the same time on the environment, although their relative importance is different in different cases

The present could never be untethered from the past, you couldn't understand one without the other.