Quotes About Interpretation

True translation is transparent: it does not obscure the original, does not stand in its light, but rather allows pure language, as if strengthened by its own medium, to shine even more fully on the original.

meaning is never found in relative independence, as in individual words or sentences; rather, it is in a constant state of flux –

Inferior translation, which consequently we may define as the inaccurate transmission of an inessential content.

The language of nature is comparable to a secret password that each sentry passes to the next in his own language, but the meaning of the password is the sentry's language itself.

The illiterate of the future', it has been said, 'will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet, but the one who cannot take a photograph'. But must we not also count as illiterate the photographer who cannot read his own pictures? Will not the caption become the most important component of the shot?

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Das Kunstwerk ist grundsätzlich immer reproduzierbar gewesen. Was Menschen gemacht hatten, das konnte immer von Menschen nachgemacht werden.

Noch bei der höchstvollendeten Reproduktion fällt eines aus: das Hier und Jetzt des Kunstwerks – sein einmaliges Dasein an dem Orte, an dem es sich befindet.

To read what was never written.' Such reading is the most ancient: reading before all languages, from the entrails, the stars, or dances. Later the mediating link of a new kind of reading, of runes and hieroglyphs, came into use.

Language communicates the linguistic being of things. The clearest manifestation of this being, however, is language itself. The answer to the question ' What does language communicate?' is therefore 'All language communicates itself.

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History is made up of fragments and absences. What is left out is as significant as what is included.

It is another nature that speaks to the camera than to the eye: 'other' above all in the sense that a space informed by human consciousness gives way to a space informed by the unconsciousness.

There is no event or thing in either animate or inanimate nature that does not in some way partake of language.

Instead of giving his own opinion, a great critic enables others to form their opinion on the basis of his critical analysis.

All of fiction is truthful. What you create is your own truth and no one can take that away or change it.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

By noting that she seems to listen but not speak, Bellincioni conveyed what makes the portrait so momentous: it captures the sense of an inner mind at work. Her emotions seem to be revealed, or at least hinted at, by the look in her eyes, the enigma of her smile, and the erotic way she clutches and caresses the ermine.

The glory of being an artist, he realized, was that reality should inform but not constrain

The comparison is perhaps a little bit unfair because a sonnet written by a machine will be better appreciated by another machine.

We'd buy brochures of Dylan lyrics and stay up late interpreting them. Dylan's words struck chords of creative thinking.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away." Bono

In other words, there is no single underlying reality that is independent of our observations. "It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is," Bohr declared. "Physics concerns what we can say about nature."62 This

Picasso Good authors copy, great artists steal-Picassco