Quotes About Interpretation

Any gloss on authors, their character traits or biographies, hides the fact that only bad writing has an author, good writing does not.

The only benefit of a Campbell's soup can by Andy Warhol (and it is an immense benefit) is that it releases us from the need to decide between beautiful and ugly, between real and unreal, between transcendence and immanence.

Le monde nous a été donné comme énigmatique et inintelligible, et la tâche de la pensée est de le rendre, si possible, encore plus énigmatique et encore plus inintelligible.

meaning is born out of the erosion of words, significations are born out of the erosion of signs

Her geçen gün daha çok haber ve bilgiye kar??n giderek daha az anlam?n üretildiÄŸi bir evrende ya??yoruz.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

A picture neither saddening nor gladdening I fear; neither beautiful nor ugly.

Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.

Il y a dans le dessin une très grande jouissance. L'écriture, c'est le dessin noué autrement. (...) Et quand je dessine, j'écris, et, peut-être, que quand j'ecris, je dessine.

A half empty bottle of wine is also half full, but half a lie will never be half true

What is style? Saying complicated things in a simple way.

I have always preferred mythology to history. Because history is made up of truths which eventually turn into lies. Mythology is made up of lies that eventually become truths.

A half empty bottle of wine is also half full, but a half lie will never be half true

tapestries to real animals.

Un vaso medio vacío de vino, es también uno medio lleno; pero una mentira a medias, de ningún modo es una media verdad.

Unii sunt ocupaÅ£i cu absurda m?reÅ£ie a visului,în timp ce ceilalÅ£i f?ptuiesc ÅŸi nu viseaz?.Ceea ce provoac? pe nesimÅ£ite o circulaÅ£ie de unde contrarii pe care sufletul le înregistreaz?,în timp ce mintea nu-i capabil? de a le descifra.

As wonderful as dogs can be, they are famous for missing the point.

Mancando le qualità morali di misura precisa, se anche ci fosse l'accordo sul segno, come ci potrebbe essere sulla valutazione?

countered. "I suspect the story was made up by a woman who had a

A frown creased Ayla's forehead. She remembered he had used that word to describe her when she used her sling, and she wasn't sure if she understood the word the way he used it. "Are you artist?" she asked. He made a wry grimace. Her question had touched at the heart of an issue about which he had strong feelings.

It may be a stone you have never seen before or a root with a special shape that has meaning for you. You must learn to understand with your heart and mind, not your eyes and ears, then you will know.

But the operation of writing implies that of reading as its dialectical correlative and these two connected acts necessitate two distinct agents. It is the joint effort of author and reader, which brings upon the scene that concrete and imaginary object which is the work of the mind. There is no art except for and by others.