Quotes About Interpretation

The experience has to be formulated in order to be communicated.

A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.

I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around.

The experience of being understood, versus interpreted, is so compelling you can charge admission.

The world ultimately is what we say it is.

There's a grand-canyon sized gulf between explanation and experience.

Art is not an object, but a trigger for experience.

The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.

Like Midas, the Rationalist is always in the unfortunate position of not being able to touch anything, without transforming it into an abstraction; he can never get a square meal of experience.

The transformation of the experience: that is pure art.

The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual experience.

An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.

In my reviews, I feel it's good to make it clear that I'm not proposing objective truth, but subjective reactions; a review should reflect the immediate experience.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

Attitudes are capable of making the same experience either pleasant or painful.

Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do—it's ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience.

I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.

We see the world through our experience.

The cannabis experience has greatly improved my appreciation for art, a subject which I had never much appreciated before.

Experience arises together with theoretical assumptions not before them, and an experience without theory is just as incomprehensible as is (allegedly) a theory without experience.

To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience.

It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think of it as something outside their own experience)

When you're in a play, you never really have a sense of what an audience is experiencing. The experience of doing a play is so different from the experience of seeing it.

I myself happen to find, on the basis of experience and nothing else, that photography can be a high art.