Quotes About Interpretation

There is your truth and there is my truth. As for the universal truth, it does not exist.

The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance

The philosophy I always have is what's the sentence that would tell me about each shot. If I can't read why the shot's there, what is the story trying to say?

I'm always looking for the idea in a scene or the philosophy that makes a scene worth existing beyond exposition.

Philosophy appears to concern itself only with the truth, but perhaps expresses only fantasies, while literature appears to concern itself only with fantasies, but perhaps it expresses the truth.

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art.

Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it.

The only philosophy is that of language, the only religion is that of the word.

Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.

When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies

One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel -- the quality of philosophy.

The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy.

Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.

There are no bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions, and wooooords.

In philosophy, the principles are more interesting than the examples. In literature, the examples are more interesting than the principles.

When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.

Das Ganze der Erfahrung gleicht einer Geheimschrift und die Philosophie der Entzifferung derselben. The whole of experience is like a cryptograph, and philosophy is like the deciphering of it.

Ironic philosophies produce passionate works.

To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it.

Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.

Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.'

It has been said that in order to pursue the history of Biblical interpretation, you must include the whole philosophy of the West, which informs it at every stage.

But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.

If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'.