Quotes About Interpretation

When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.

Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good any more... I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.

Words, words. They're all we have to go on.

Beauty may reside in the eye of the beholder, but what we see is determined by what we expect to see.

It takes a poet to read a river and a community to make a response.

One thing that is known is that they do not look at paintings very long.

Art experts are said to have a "good eye." What they really have is a good brain. It is less that they spot things that others do not; it is that they know where to look;

We spend time with a painting to try to understand it, but how much time we spend with a painting is driven by how much we understand of it.

The road itself tells us far more than signs do.

Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way.

I've always been a word guy, I like weird words and I like American slang and all that and words that are no longer being used… I like to drag them out of the box and wave them around… this is an interesting one, it's amazing how in addition to punctuation just a little pause in the wrong place can just completely transform the meaning of something.

There is no such thing as nonfiction.

Singing is just doing interesting things to the air. Elongating it and twisting it into shapes.

Everyone's personality is a manifestation of their combined past experiences. If you are able to observe and interpret someone's behavior, you will eventually be able to predict that person's behavior as well.

My name translated into Chinese is "Hy Yu"

Reality is based on interpretation.

Since the beginning of time man has done three things when he communicates both in speaking and in the written form. He will Generalize, Omit & Exaggerate.

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If you want to know about my politics, the only way to do that is to look at my work.

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As a certain philosopher of ancient Greece once put it, the difference between the historian and poet/storyteller is that where the historian relates what happened, the storyteller tells us how it might have come about.

Bless her heart's Southern for 'that bitch,' which Meryl was too polite to say out loud.)