Quotes About Interpretation

The problem with every story is you tell it after the fact.

Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?

Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations.

Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?

It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself.

What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher.

What we call chaos is just pat­terns we haven't rec­og­nized. What we call ran­dom is just pat­terns we can't de­ci­pher. What we can't un­der­stand we call non­sense. What we can't read we call gib­ber­ish.

They're just words is all. Powerless. Vocabulary. Dialogue.

What you don't understand, you can make mean anything.

Peter used to say, The only thing an artist can do is describe his own face. You're doomed to being you. This, he says, leaves su free to draw anything, since we're only drawing ourselves. Your handwriting. The way you walking. Which China pattern you choose. It's all giving you away. Everything you do shows your hand. Everything is a self-portrait. Everything is a Diary.

It sounds trite, but only because words make everything true sound trite. Because words always screw up whatever you're trying to say.

Good and evil have always existed. They always will. It's only our stories about them that ever change.

you can make mean anything.

That's what I tell peo­ple. My of­fi­cial ver­sion of the truth.

Really, there is no wrong. Not in our own minds. Our own reality. You can never set off to do the wrong thing. You can never say the wrong thing. In your own mind, you are always right. Every action you take—what you do or say or how you choose to appear—is automatically right the moment you act.

His Highness looks at Denny and says, "Those glasses you're wearing, do you need them?" "Only to see with," Denny says.

Little voice gives us the facts. Big voice gives us the meaning—or at least a character's subjective interpretation of the events.

It's amazing what a woman will read into it if you by accident say, I love you. Ten times out of ten, a guy means I love this.

Si no entiendes algo, puedes hacer que signifique cualquier cosa.

Es gracioso que la belleza del arte tenga mucho más que ver con el marco que con la obra de arte en sí misma.

what you can't understand you can make mean anything.

It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with he frame than with the artwork itself.

A quello che non capisci puoi dare qualunque significato.

We don't live in the real world anymore. We live in a world of symbols.