Quotes About Interpretation

There are two kinds of obscurity; one arises from a lack of feelings and thoughts, which have been replaced by words; the other from an abundance of feelings and thoughts, and the inadequacy of words to express them.

I identify it (i.e., Kadesh Barnea) with Mecca.

Read Hearn, the most eloquent and truthful interpreter of the Japanese mind, and you see the working of that mind to be an example of the working of Bushido.

We needed no Shakespeare to feel -- though, perhaps, like the rest of the world, we needed him to express it.

People seem to have a hard time responding to a woman's sexuality without having the desire to literally touch it. I guess in some ways, sexuality implies that, but I don't think sexuality necessarily invites someone else to participate. I don't want people to interpret my work as an invitation to fuck me.

Ich aber konnte überhaupt keine Schuld in dem Kind entdecken, seit es nicht mehr so wehrlos und stumm wie in den ersten Wochen war. Und damals war es wohl nicht unschuldig, sondern nur unfähig zu einer Äußerung gewesen, ein Bündel auf feinem Fleisch und Flachs, mit dünnem Atem, mit einem riesigen dumpfen Kopf, der wie ein Blitzableiter die Botschaften der Welt entschärfte.

I will tell you a terrible secret: language is punishment. Language must encompass all things and in it all things must again transpire according to guilt and the degree of guilt.

Oder leiden die anderen nicht so sehr darunter, weil sie kein andres System haben, die Welt zu sehen?

What actually is possible, however, is transformation. And the transformative effect that emanates from new works leads us to new perception, to a new feeling, new consciousness

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. - Anaïs Nin

It doesn't matter if anyone else ever sees my pictures or not. They are for me, part of who I am and how I express my interpretation of what I see in this world.

I stupidly suggested that we do A Dream Play. There were forty-two parts... It was hell. I thought: 'How can I explain to these forty-two people what Strindberg means by "Poor souls, I feel sorry for us."' It doesn't exist in German.

For example, there are thousands of different linguistic words for water. The meanings all refer to water – and the substance can literally be pointed at in case of linguistic difficulties.

Some astrologers are, as we shall say from now on, psychically aligned, and can even "get" images of those factors. I don't have Cathy's natal chart, so I can't say for sure if her

For example, to a viewer who has never seen an actual atomic reactor, what they are sensing can be described as a teapot, both of which are hot and 'cook'.

People fill in the unknown with what fits with THEIR known.

and I am quite sure that they are worth being painted.

To create works of art meant no less to him than to paint life, not mere reality, but the principle of life.

This isn't business. This is poetry.

He looked at the world from above. Where I saw threatening waves, he saw tranquil water.

You are a reader, not a cheerleader" (from interview at Lilies and Cannonballs Review)

After all, people judge one another according to their own feelings. It is only the miser who sees other enticed by money, the lustful who see others obsessed by desire.

History is not about the past; it is about arguments we have about the past. And because it is about arguments that we have, it is about us.

It ain't necessarily so—The things that you're liableTo read in the Bible—It ain't necessarily so.