Quotes About Interpretation

Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.

Think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.

The man who speaks with primordial images, speaks with a thousand tongues.

I put the Scriptures above all the sayings of the fathers, angels, men and devils. Here I take my stand.

The ultimate function of art is to make men do what they want to do, as it is to make them recognize what they know.

A skilful man reads his dreams for his selfknowledge; yet not the details, but the quality.

If the Constitution says that marriage is between a man and woman, then things that are inconsistent with that would be inconsistent with the Constitution.

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

I do not see how it is possible for an intelligent human being to conclude that the Song of Solomon is the work of God, and that the tragedy of Lear was the work of an uninspired man.

There is no Champollion to decipher the Egypt of every man's and every being's face. Physiognomy, like every other human science,is but a passing fable.

It is for the artist... in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day; to paint the man, in short, as well as his features.

I mean one of the basic rules when you're acting is that you mustn't stand in judgement on a character, you mustn't say Hitler was a bad man because you can't act in that way.

No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.

The camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it. It can be the extension of mind and heart.

Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive.

I find a woman's point of view much grander and finer than a man's.

Men only know if you tell them. Even though you probably want them to just know, they won't.

The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man.

An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws.

They said, 'You have a blue guitar, / You do not play things as they are.' / The man replied, 'Things as they are / Are changed upon the blue guitar.'

Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done.

One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.

Nothing is real beyond imaginative patterns men make of reality.

One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.