Quotes About Interpretation

Drawing makes you look at the world more closely. It helps you to see what you're looking at more clearly. Did you know that?"I said nothing."What colour's a blackbird?" she said."Black""Typical!

Words tend to bounce off nature as they try to deliver nature's language into the hands of another language foreign to it.

Ambiguity begets participation.

Facts are much more malleable than prejudices.

We see the world not as it is, but as we are.~Dag Redwing Hickory Bluefield

Sometimes there is a microcosm and a macrocosm, and if you're dyslexic like me you can't tell the difference.

We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the version of the world they really believed in.

I like Stan [Getz], because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies - other people can't get nothing out of a song, but he can, which takes a lot of imagination.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood.

Maybe because it's entirely an artist's eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tools.

The line between patriot and terrorist is drawn by the historian.

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.

Any manipulation of the Scriptures to make them speak peace to the natural man is evil and can only lead to ruin.

Islam is not a religion of peace. Islam is a religion of submission. Islam means submit.

It is not the situation. It is your reaction to the situation.

One man's pet-stained carpet is another man's Twister game.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways.

We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.

You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

Everyone has an enemy. It's why God gave us baseball bats. Well, He gave us trees, but we knew what He meant.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.