Quotes About Interpretation

Any kind of history you read is basically the winning side telling you the others were bad.

striving to replace it to some extent by this image. This is what the painter does, and the poet, the speculative

Accordingly, no book can actually embody the knowledge of anything of philosophical importance; only a mind can do that, since only a mind can have this capacity to interpret and reinterpret its own understandings.

The acute attention that ravens pay to our subtle signals underscores the degree to which they can draw conclusions from our body language. They perceive our intentions even though we may not be consciously aware of them.

If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.

The authors of literary works may not have intended all the subtleties, complexities, undertones, and overtones that are attributed to them by critics and by students writing doctoral theses. That's what God says about geologists, I told him...

So oft in theologic wars, / The disputants, I ween, / Rail on in utter ignorance / Of what each other mean, / And prate about an Elephant / Not one of them has seen.

It interests me tremendously to make copies... I started it by chance and I find it teaches me things.

The problem facing a comprehender is analogous to the problem that a detective faces when trying to solve a crime. In both cases there is a set of clues.

College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.

My education was an education by movies.

I'm not sure at all that literature should be studied on the university level. ... Why should people study books? Isn't it rather silly to study Pride and Prejudice. Either you get it or you don't.

Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.

Great art is always a balancing act. But all art has both - an emotional content and an intellectual content.

If you're feeling emotional when you're creating something, it'll sound that way.

I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion.

Take the emotional temperature of those listening to you. Facial expressions, voice inflection and posture give clues to a person's mood and attitude.

I think dancing is an emotional experience.

Without emotional content we make pictures; with it, we create art.

The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles.

Know what it is the emotional statement to convey, and use taste and judgement to help the actors give their best possible performance.