Quotes About Interpretation

One can understand nature only when one has learned the language and the signs in which it speaks to us; but this language is mathematics and these signs are methematical figures.

To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.

That is the logical tight-rope on which we have to walk if we wish to interpret nature.

A poet is the translator of the silent language of nature to the world.

Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture.

All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas.

The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.

Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?

For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.

English majors understand human nature better than economists do.

What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

Nature must be interpreted as matter, energy, and information

Anybody doing something brings something to it. It's not for me to say if it's "growth". Just by the nature of everyone has a different take on the material. Some people would.

When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which echo processes in nature.

Movies, by nature, are not subjective, they're objective.

Human language is mythological and metaphorical by nature.

Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation.

It seems to me that before the photograph can exist as art it must, by its very nature choose whether it is to be a record or a testimony.

The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

The world we write is but a dappled expression of the one in which we live.

All in the eye of the beholder - Some of the most destructive forces in the world (Fire & Water), can also have the power of beauty.

If one can picture the words, then the works of the writer is an accomplishment!

However, an artist is limited only by his own skill and imagination. He's in total control of his art. Whereas nature is the artist here, and I merely try to interpret and manage her design.