Quotes About Interpretation

Tudo o que fazemos tem um significado, Ender concluiu. Eles rirem. Eu não rir.

Her action in defending Marcão meant one thing to him and something quite different to her; it was so different that it was not even the same event.

He understood all the words, he just had no clue what was going on. The Aunts said what they meant. Or at least they meant what they said.

Nobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind those words.

Metaphorical flavor doesn't influence reality," said the expendable.

I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them;once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.

Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

All art is quite useless.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.

every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.

It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.

Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.