Quotes About Interpretation

One man's priority is another man's extravagence.

To judge therefore of Shakespeare by Aristotle's rule is like trying a man by the Laws of one Country who acted under those of another.

It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them.

This Marxian sentence, repeated to the point of boredom, is misinterpreted. In reality [Karl] Marx was a "religious" man.

I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?

As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my boy, There's nothing in it.

My photos tend to be confusing. I show a great many vistas.

Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his understanding nor his power extends further.

Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.

To make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography.

Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better.

Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.

Ek gret effect men write in place lite; Th'entente is al, and nat the lettres space.

An art thief is a man who takes pictures.

Men speake of the faire, as things went with them there.

Men see what they expect to see.

I am obliged to deal with hundreds of men and to make them live without killing the reader.

The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men's genius.

The English are no nearer than they were a hundred years ago to knowing what Jefferson really meant when he said that God had created all men equal.

Art is the signature of man.

My aesthetic is about simplicity, elegance, and comfort, whether that is interpreted in a man's suit or a track suit.

One must never judge the writer by the man; but one may fairly judge the man by the writer.

I hear the headlines on the radio, see them on TV and read them in the paper. When I hear from the men out there, I sometimes don't believe they are talking about the same situation.

Lovely was my compliment. Could you not come up with your own?" "Lord Paen said compliment her, he did not say we had to be creative about it," the second man pointed out with a shrug