Quotes About Interpretation

There are really so many subtleties of meaning and observation that very often are not expressed by writers.

We can bring it all down to the subtleties of the shifting of an eye because we know the camera will catch it. That has been a great thing to learn, and it makes it interesting for a guy who has been in it as long as I have.

One of the biggest problems in literature is the lack of subtlety.

When you are trying to express things with metaphors and much more subtlety, that's when you are doing yourself a disservice by making a video.

You don't want to hit readers over the head like they're completely incapable of picking up on subtlety.

Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them. What we're talking about here is metaphor. Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art, if it is not art itself. Metaphor is our vocabulary for connecting what we are experiencing now with what we have experienced before. It's not only how we express what we remember , it's how we interpret it - for ourselves and others.

I am magnetically drawn to images, whether they're paintings, photographs, film, or video. They are all lodestones of inspiration to me.

When Homer composed the Iliad and Odyssey, he was drawing on centuries of history and folklore handed down by oral tradition. When Nicolas Poussin painted The Rape of the Sabine Women, he was re-creating Roman history. When Marcel Proust dipped his petites madeleines into his tea, the taste and aroma set off a flood of memories and emotions from which modern literature has still not recovered.

We want our artists to take the mundane materials of our lives, run it through their imaginations, and surprise us.

Perception is reality, because that is their truth.

Las palabras son a las cosas lo que el deseo es al objeto de deseo.

The framing of what there is by the mind is what you call beauty.

You don't actually know anything about that person or that thing, except what you are projecting on that object or the individual. The knowledge you have about it is the experience. It goes on and on. That's all. What that really is, you have no way of knowing.

The word for patience in Arabic is 'cactus'. They have the same meaning -'to endure thirst'.

Whatever is true is true, but not all truths are necessary truths. It is true that adding two pebbles to two pebbles makes four pebbles; but adding two drops of water to two drops can make one pool (Piaget, 1967d, p. 582). What this means is that the action of adding actual objects together can have alternative outcomes; the sum of adding two and two can be other than four – that is a real possibility, and no contradiction arises from this.

From an epistemological perspective, a person is a uniform being who interprets the different parts of her conscious knowledge in a coherent fashion (or at least tries to do this). How do modular theories explain this search for coherence? And how do they explain necessary knowledge, which hardly can be domain-specific (Smith, 1993, p. 5)?

Gallagher, 2005;

Little things like language don't get in the way of a really good fillum.

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.

Every time someone tells me how sharp my photos are, I assume that it isn't a very interesting photograph. If it were, they would have more to say.

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness

Some people use language to express thought, some to conceal thought, and others instead of thought.