Quotes About Interpretation

Artists talk in 'art speak.'

One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.

Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't.

Every person, every artist makes his life an artwork.

I love working with rotoscopic animation because under the incredible handpainted artwork are real actors and real human performances.

Is not the forehead the most prophetic feature of a man?

The purpose of art is not to copy nature, but to express it. It's not about making good or bad copies, it's about poetry!

All things are true, all things are false. Moral truths as well as human beings change their aspect according to their surroundings, to the point of being actually unrecognizable.

Ondan bir kaç sonra anlad?m ki bir kad?n?n susmas?nda gizli bir anlam vard?r, bol bol konu?mada ise nice dü?ünceler sakl?d?r.

La hardiesse du vrai s'élève à des combinaisons interdites à l'art, tant elles sont invraisemblables ou peu décentes, à moins que l'écrivain ne les adoucisse, ne les émonde, ne les châtre.

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

For however handsome and merry may be the face, however rich may be the background, in the first rough sketch of each portrait, yet with every added stroke of the brush, with every tiny readjustment of the "values," with every modification of the chiaroscuro, the eyes looking out at you grow more disquieting?

Why do grown-ups think they can talk over your head? When my mother and her friends gossip, they think I don't understand what they're saying, because they talk all around a subject instead of using plain words. Or they don't finish a sentence and then give each other meaningful looks. Well, it doesn't take a genius to fill in the blanks--I've learned how to figure out what goes in blanks from taking school tests.

As in painting, so in poetry.

A picture is a poem without words.

"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.

The hemlock tree is named spruce-pine, while spruce is he-balsam, balsam itself is she-balsam, laurel is ivy, and rhododendron is laurel.

Aunque me habló con loco entusiasmo de la belleza de su novia, esta apreciación suya de la hermosura en cuestión no tenía para mí ningún valor.

It doesn't make any sense, does it?" "Some things don't," said the beetle, gloomily. "Don't be so sure," Aubrey said. "Everything makes sense if you can find the right way to look at it. What we need is a new perspective.

There's a message in the way a person treats you. Hovsep Kazezian www.Hkazezian.com

You don't have to be crazy to act crazy. You just have to know what crazy people act like. And I had plenty of experience watching crazy people.

A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics.

Perhaps, indeed, there are no truly universal ethics: or to put it more precisely, the ways in which ethical principles are interpreted will inevitably differ across cultures and eras. Yet, these differences arise chiefly at the margins. All known societies embrace the virtues of truthfulness, integrity, loyalty, fairness; none explicitly endorse falsehood, dishonesty, disloyalty, gross inequity. (Five Minds for the Future, p136)

When Einstein had thought through a problem, he always found it necessary to formulate this subject in as many different ways as possible and to present it so that it would be comprehensible to people accustomed to different modes of thought and with different educational preparations.