Quotes About Interpretation

All men have the stars, but they are not the same things for different people.

Living in somebody else's pain for an actor man, it's actually nice when you get to feel that kind of emotion. That's what I like.

Being a creation of Man, art re-creates Man.

If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

Many have been led astray by the Qur'an: by clinging to that rope many have fallen into the well. There is no fault in the rope, O perverse man, for it was you who had no desire to reach the top.

A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide.

Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.

The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces.

One man's magic is another man's gluey torture session.

I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust description

One man's toxic waste is another man's potpourri.

How easily men satisfy themselves that the Constitution is exactly what they wish it to be

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling.

Heaven sends down its good and evil symbols and wise men act accordingly.

There is a master way with words that cannot be learned but instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper.

Literature is man's exploration of man by artificial light, which is better than natural light because we can direct it where we want.

Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.

The history of the world, as it is written and handed down by word of mouth, often fails us completely; but man's intuitive capacity, though it often misleads, does lead, does not ever abandon one.

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.

No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.

A friend said to me, "I think the weather is trippy." I said, "No, man, it's not the weather that's trippy, perhaps it's the way we perceive it." And then I realized I just should have said, "Yeah."

The trouble is, we've been taught what to see and how to render what we see. If only we could be in the position of those men who did those wonderful drawings in Lascaux and Altimira!

The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.

We cling to words like drowning men to straws. But still we drown, we drown.