Quotes About Interpretation

The best way to refine an interpretation is by getting out and performing.

My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can.

The best musicians are not the best players, they're the best listeners.

The very best pictures adapt themselves to many changes in meaning.

I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.

There is no best way to make art, but there are a lot of better ways.

Really the best way to learn about something is simply to read it and not make a scientific theory of interpretation.

To me, there are lots of different stories to tell and you usually find the best way to tell the one you are telling once you are in it.

Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication.

I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.

The best way to begin is to say: 'Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at the paintings'.

The images from the book you make in your head are always going to be the best images.

My job as an actor is to serve the script. If I'm looking at it as to see what the best character is, then it's not really looking at the big picture.

The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it.

It's all about this abstract entity called the story. It's all about the best way to tell the story, and to make a movie about the issues that this story is about. Filmmaking is storytelling, for me.

Ugliness sees ugliness

If you look at 'The Best Man, ' there's a lot of humor in that, but I never consider that movie a comedy. I felt that it was a drama with comedic elements and comedic parts to it.

I know we didn't make an anti-Semitic film. This is what the Gospels are. And it's none of my business what other people think of me.

For me the true business of photography is to capture a bit of reality (whatever that is) on film...if, later, the reality means something to someone else, so much the better.

Painting is a strange business.

Picasso obviously viewed his art as a business, which it was. I view my business as an art, which it is.

What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach.

Jesus is Jesus. So, I'm not sure I'd get into the business of making somebody into Jesus. That's just me.

Words are your business, boy. Not just the word. Words are everything. The key to the rock, the answer to the question.