Quotes About Interpretation

What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.

No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.

The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language.

I would like to write you so simply, so simply, so simply. Without having anything ever catch the eye, excepting yours alone, ... so that above all the language remains self-evidently secret, as if it were being invented at every step, and as if it were burning immediately

A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rules of its game. A text remains, moreover, forever imperceptible. Its laws and rules are not, however, harbored in the inaccessibility of a secret; it is simply that they can never be booked, in the present, into anything that could rigorously be called a perception.

Il n'y a pas de hors-texte.

Trouver une forme qui exprime le gâchis, telle est maintenant la tâche de l'artiste».

La poésie […] n'existe, ne s'absente, ne surgit, que pour refuser la réponse. Et pour s'approcher de la question[…] elle ne réponde pas aux questions, elles les pose.

Propaganda is necessarily false, when it speaks of values, of truth, of good, of justice, of happiness-and when it interprets and colors facts and imputes meaning to them. It is true when it serves up the plain fact, but does so only for the sake of establishing a pretense and only as an example of the interpretation that it supports with that fact.

C'est à vous d'être lacaniens, si vous voulez. Moi, je suis freudien. (You can be Lacanians, if you want. As for me, I'm a Freudian.)

Many people talk about messages everywhere, inside the organism a hormone is a message, a beam of light to obtain teleguidance to a plane or from a satellite is a message, and so on; but the message in language is absolutely different. The message. Our message, in all cases comes from the Other by which I understand "from the place of the Other.

Does art imitate what it represents? In offering the imitation of an object, artists make something different out of that object. Thus they only pretend to imitate.

The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom

But what Freud showed us… was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt, except in a symbolic way, as one says, in effigie, in absentia.

Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially, by the position of the signifiers in relation to other signifiers.

The sentence completes its signification only with its last term.

Reading in no way obliges us to understand.

All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.

If books were judged by the bad uses man can put them to, what book has been more misused than the Bible?

maliar.. je tiež ?lovekom, a to skôr, ako je maliarom

Platón tvrdil, že filozof musí filozofova? celou svojou dušou (aj ke? vlastným orgánom filozofie je iba rozum). to isté môžeme poveda? o umelcovi.

Les mots sont indépendants, comme les chats, et ils ne font pas ce que vous voulez. Vous avez beau les aimer, les flatter, leur parler doucement, il s'échappent et partent à l'aventure.

Dans les livres, il n'y a rien ou presque rien d'important: tout est dans la tête de la personne qui lit.

Books contain nothing, or almost nothing, that's important: everything is in the mind of the person reading them.' If you were trying to find an idiotic remark, that one took the cake!