Quotes About Interpretation

The word is my fourth dimension.

I also want the figurative like a painter who only paints abstract colors but wants to show that he does so because he chooses to, not because he can't draw.

This text that I give you is not to be seen close up: it gains its secret previously invisible roundness when seen from a high-flying plane. Then you can divine the play of islands and see the channels and seas. Understand me: I write you an onomatopoeia, convulsion of language. I'm not transmitting to you a story but just words that live from sound. I speak to you thus: "Lustful trunk.

Elk ding is een woord

when art is good it is because it touched upon the inexpressive, the worst art is expressive, that art which trangresses the piece of iron and the piece of glass, and the smile, and the scream.

It's so odd and hard to substitute the paintbrush for that strangely familiar but always remote thing, the word. The extreme beauty and intimate beauty is within it.

It's so odd and hard to substitute the paintbrush for that strangely familiar but always remote thing, the word. The extreme and intimate beauty is within it.

Ahora quiero ver si consigo aprehender lo que me ha sucedido usando palabras. Al usarlas estaré destruyendo un poco lo que sentí, pero es inevitable.

Nunca saberei entender mas há de haver quem entenda. E é em mim que tenho de criar esse alguém que entenderá.

El lenguaje es mi esfuerzo humano.

A CHALLENGE FOR PSYCHOANALYSTS: I dreamed that a fish took off its clothes and was left naked.

Yes, I know," continued Joana. "The distance that separates emotions from words. I've already thought about that. And the most curious thing is that the moment I try to speak not only do I fail to express what I feel but what I feel slowly becomes what I say. Or at least what makes me act is not, most certainly, what I feel but what I say.

Ama diÄŸer yandan, "herkes kendi al???k olmad??? ÅŸeye barbarl?k der". Oysa ne kadar acayip, sars?c?, hatta baÅŸkald?rt?c? görünürse görünsün, baÄŸlam?na yerleÅŸtirilirse, iyi yönlendirilen bir akl?n aç?klayamayaca?? inanç ya da örf ve âdet yoktur.

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!

context is not meaning.

Words work as release--well-oiled doors opening and closing between intention, gesture.

You take in things you don't want all the time. The second you hear or see some ordinary moment, all its intended targets, all the meanings behind the retreating seconds, as far as you are able to see, come into focus. Hold up, did you just hear, did you just say, did you just see, did you just do that? Then the voice in your head silently tells you to take your foot off your throat because just getting along shouldn't be an ambition.

All living is listening for a throat to open-- The length of its silence shaping lives. When he opened his mouth to speak, his speech was what was written in the silence, the length of the silence becoming a living.

Le mot 'chat' signifie 'la chose blanche qui ronronne' (lors du cours sur la Métaphysique des Espèces Naturelles, Collège de France 2013-2014)

You men always try to tell our story. You men always get it wrong.

The poet wants to 'say' something. Why, then, doesn't he say it directly and fortrightly? Why is he willing to say it only through his metaphors? Through his metaphors, he risks saying it partially and obscurely, and risks saying nothing at all. But the risk must be taken, for direct statement leads to abstraction and threatens to take us out of poetry altogether.