Quotes About Interpretation

It is not the event that causes our reactions but rather how we interpret the event, which makes us either confident or anxious.

Can a cat vanish, but not its grin? Can structure exist without matter? This may be possible in the abstract interpretation of Plato and Plotinus; in a concrete sense, it is impossible. Structured matter can be interpreted as an excitation of unstructured matter, just as the cat with the grin may be seen as an excitation of the nongrinning cat.

The orthodox interpretation offers no explanation as to why everyday objects never assume quantum mechanical states that do not allow a classical interpretation.

Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.

My spirit is no longer what it was. Vaguely I seek, everywhere. I must see things with all their consequences, and right to their source. Against all the chains of facts I must have long arguments to bring; and the world's chaos requires an interpretation equally terrible.

All the translations of a poem in all possible languages may add nuance to nuance and, by a kind of mutual retouching, by correcting one another, may give an increasingly faithful picture of the poem they translate, yet they will never give the inner meaning of the original.

In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.

Nous ne voyons pas les choses mêmes ; nous nous bornons, le plus souvent, à lire des étiquettes collées sur elles.

Mais l'idée que le monde entier, y compris les êtres vivants, relève de la mathématique pure, n'est qu'une vue a priori de l'esprit, qui remonte aux cartésiens.

The only valid thing in art is the one thing that cannot be explained, to explain away the mystery of a great painting would do irreplaceable harm, for whenever you explain or define something you substitute the explanation or the definition for the

Precision is not reality.

I want to reach that state of condensation of sensations which constitutes a picture.

Drawing is putting a line round an idea.

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.

You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.

Exactitude is not truth.

I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it.

I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.

First man knows, then he understands, last he sees, or thinks he sees, and embroiders. In the same way the true poet creates, then understands...sometimes.

[G]eometry is not true, it is advantageous.

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.