Quotes About Interpretation

We shall do our best to avoid the factual error of looking for so-called real life in novels. Let us not try and reconcile the fictions of facts with the facts of fiction. ... A master piece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.

Couleur locale has been responsible for many hasty appreciations, and local color is not a fast color.

If there is some red spot on one of my paintings it is unlikely to be the heart of the work. The painting was done regardless of it. You could remove the red and still the painting would be there. But in Matisse's work it is inconceivable that you could remove a spot of red, no matter how small without the entire painting instantly collapsing.' Pablo Picasso

Of course Covarrubias wasn't a negro, but how he caught the darky spirit!

If you look at anything long enough, it turns into style.

I asked him, "Do you know the difference between nude and naked?" He shook his head. "Nude is artistic. Naked is defenseless.

Unfortunately, when my truth becomes more important than the truth, the Bible loses its objective authority.

Perversion, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.

To cite one particularly striking example of this, note how in John 12:37-41, Isaiah's vision of "the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up" is taken to be a vision of Jesus.28

Remember picture books are the closest form of writing to a poem. Even though they don't have to rhyme, they must be poetic. They must be written so the worst actress can read with comfort and expression.

From then on Dirmit wrapped herself up in a quilt made of words. She slept on a bed of words and sat on a chair of words. Atiye became thousands of words whos days were numbered. NuÄŸber sat waiting for words. Zekiye wept words. Seyit smiled with his gleaming white teeth made of false words. Mahmut pressed his tongue against his teeth and whistled words. Halit banged words on the wall.

I am a trained professional liar. Do not read me as a textbook.

Every people had a story of how the world had come about, the boss said, and every one was as valid as the next and just about as true.

You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.

La mera verdad es que la verdad no existe, todo depende del punto de vista.

The simple truth is that the truth does not exist; it all depends on a person's point of view.

Psychology professor Albert Mehrabian at the University of California, Los Angeles, laid out the concept called the 7-38-55 rule in his book Silent Messages. The concept divided into percentages how we communicate emotions:3 • 7 percent spoken words • 38 percent tone of voice • 55 percent body language

Before we ask, or when we never get the words out to ask, we have the tendency to make a lot of assumptions.

a menudo encontraba párrafos enteros que no tenían ningún sentido para ella.

Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957)

Art teaches art.

Every art form will lend you its eye and offer a new way to see.

To be an artist was to interpret experiences for others. The more a person turned in to the charismatic forces in life or in a piece of art the more that person lived in the ecstasy of energy we call life

With computers, e-mail, you don't hear an actual voice, but you catch a tone in the words on the screen.