Quotes About Interpretation

The most delightful aspect about the language of cinema is that it speaks to each of us in different ways - it is a purely subjective experience.

The same piece of music alters at each hearing. But oh, the need to repeat and repeat and repeat unchanged the sexual experience.

As strange as it may sound, our experience of a Chagall painting actually depends to some extent on whether our language has a word for blue.

If some of this art is not for you, that's fine. Art appreciation is a subjective matter, and we each bring our own experience, knowledge and taste to the party.

A prayerful study and experience are essential for a correct interpretation of the scriptures.

Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality.

We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly.

I think I have a tendency to look at things subjectively rather than objectively when I reflect on my experience.

One must see one's model correctly and experience it in the right way; and furthermore express oneself forcibly and with distinction.

As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.

We cannot appreciate the art of any age without first acquiring an equivalent of the experience it depicts.

When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

Usually my starting point is something that I've seen. It might be a painting, it might be an object. But they always start from a definite sensory experience.

...I will continue to underscore that I don't think authorial intent is all that important to a reading experience, and I certainly don't think the job of reading is to divine authorial intent.

It's always interesting to me that we all hear music differently. It's an awesome experience to hear what other people hear.

Through the experience of art, the powers of perception and transformation can be awakened, in both those who create it and those who re-perceive it.

In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express.

We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.

I like not knowing too much about somebody I'm photographing, because the process also becomes an experience for me to learn about .

People are experience-rich and theory-poor. I help people organize / make sense of their experiences.

The meaning of experience is typically one generation behind the experience. The content of new situations, both private and corporate, is typically the preceding situation.

The void created by the failure to communicate is soon filled with poison, drivel and misrepresentation.

The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it's the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then it's a failure in communication.

The proper use of comments is to compensate for our failure to express ourself in code.