Quotes About Interpretation

You must come to read the face of life with understanding.

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COMMUNICATING IS ONE OF THE MOST DIFFICULT CHALLENGES IN ANY BUSINESS, BECAUSE PEOPLE HEAR WHAT THEY WANT TO HEAR.

every good artist paints what he is

The painting has a life of its own

It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.

I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them

But we are in any case mistaken if we think of our picture of the world as a passive record. The picture is made by, it is made of, our activity, all the way from the logic of the brain to the use of the plow and the wheel.

We become more and more aware that what we think about the world is not what the world is but what the human animal sees of the world.

Las emociones son pensamientos que no se pueden o quieren entender; siempre aparecen cuando hay un contacto con la máxima complicación. Son negativos cuando no se pueden entender; positivas cuando no se quieren comprender.

I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower

The harp sounds at each passing breeze, but that does not mean the tune is masterfully played.

Are you a minor character in my tale, or am I a lesser figure in yours?" "I don't know, my lady," I murmured. "I suppose it depends on who is telling the tale.

We forgot, we made errors, argued ambiguities, and twisted meanings to suit our own ends. And in so doing, mayhap we reshaped the gods themselves. Now

We were human, mortal and fallible. We forgot, we made errors, argued ambiguities, and twisted meanings to suit our own ends.

We were human, mortal and fallible. We forgot, we made errors, argued ambiguities, and twisted meanings to suit our own ends. And in so doing, mayhap we reshaped the gods themselves.

Ben Lewis. He's in Afghanistan. He is? I blinked. In the army ? Well, he's not there on his honeymoon.

You dance funny,' she said. I didn't think this was a compliment.

you should know that all maps are drawn in hindsight. And hindsight, if interpreted with care, is what brings us wisdom.

It thus became almost impossible to have one's music heard without first being profitable, in other words, without writing commercial works known to the bourgeoisie. To be successful, a musician first had to attract an audience as an interpreter: representation takes precedence over composition and conditions it. The only authorized composers were successful interpreters of the works of others.

Therefore we will not listen to the source itself in order to learn what it is or what it means, but rather to the turns of speech, the allegories, figures, metaphors, as you will, into which the source has deviated, in order to lose it or rediscover it—which always amounts to the same.

That which I call a text is practically everything… Speech is a text, gesture is a text, reality is a text in this new sense. This is not about re-establishing graphocentrism alongside logocentrism or phonocentrism or text-centrism. The text is not a centre. The text is an openness without borders, of ever-differentiating references.

And still the text will remain, if it is really cryptic and parodying (and I tell you that it is so through and through. I might as well tell you since it won't be of any help to you. Even my admission can very well be a lie because there is dissimulation only if one tells the truth, only if one tells that one is telling the truth), still the text will remain indefinitely open, cryptic and parodying.

Be alert to these invisible quotation marks, even within a word.