Quotes About Interpretation

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

That's why I love philosophy: no one wins.

Philosophy begins with the understanding that you cannot just observe or experience and then report what you see, because how you conceptualize and symbolize alters experience.

The most beautiful philosophical song existing in any known tongue.

Art tries, literally, to picture the things which philosophy tries to put into carefully thought-out words.

I think that a visual artist's philosophy develops much more freely than a writer's or a thinker's philosophy. It is not so disciplined. The photographer works with both his eyes and his mind.

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

Fine art is in the last consequence, philosophy expressed visually.

Everyone has some kind of philosophy, some general worldview, which to men of other views will seem mythological.

For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist. If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered.

I rather despise claims to objectivity in philosophy; the point of view is the thing.

...you don't need to be technically great, because if you have a strong philosophy people will be moved by your pictures regardless.

Perception is not something that happens to us, or in us. It is something we do.

The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.

What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.

The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.

In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred.

History should be written as philosophy.

People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.

When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.

Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.

We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer.

We categorize as we do because we have the brains and bodies we have and because we interact in the world as we do.

Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.