Quotes About Interpretation

A photographer's main instrument is his eyes. Strange as it may seem, many photographers choose to use the eyes of another photographer, past or present, instead of their own. Those photographers are blind.

Si la verdad no puede ser contada, arréglala para que se pueda».

What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

Pero ya es sabido que la elocuencia está en el oído de quien oye.

la ragione e il torto non si dividon mai con un taglio cosí netto, che ogni parte abbia soltanto dell'una o dell'altro.

Over the course of time, their successive readings will question and enrich it. Thus the work will no longer belong to the author; he will be dispossessed of it.

Over the course of time, their successive readings will question and enrich it. Thus the work will no longer belong to the author; he will be dispossessed of it. We could even say that the author will no longer belong to himself either—which corresponds to the most modest and ambitious of dreams he is able to formulate and to the wisest and wildest illusion he can maintain: to ignore age and let time run its course. To write is to die a little, but a little less alone.

We must read and reread; the relationship with a text is alive.

When it is a question of ascertaining whether or not some human act has really taken place, [historians] cannot be too painstaking. If they proceed to the reasons for that act, they are content with the merest appearance, ordinarily founded upon one of those maxims of common-place psychology which are neither more nor less true than their opposites.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

The underlying dynamic here is that a want can easily be interpreted as a need. This happens in two ways. First, we can make our emotions the criteria of reality. "If I feel that something is true, then it must be true." Second, we can indulge a desire for so long that we become dependent upon its fulfillment. Eventually, we believe that we cannot live without the object to which we have become attached. We become trapped by our desires.

Tessa decided there were two possibilities to explain what had just happened: 1. Skylar was reaching out from the afterlife. 2. She was imagining Skylar was reaching out from the afterlife.

There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth. And no one is lying." Robert Evans

Du får lära dig att en viss sorts tystnad säger mer än tomma ord.

For example instead of "Thou shall not kill," try "Thou shall not murder." There's a big difference between those two, and you had better learn it. If you believe in the not-kill part, you're fucked if you meet someone who doesn't. If you adhere to the not-murder view, however, you can, if necessary, kill someone.

Generalisations about 'the Anglo-Saxons' are consequently difficult,

Women like silent men. They think they're listening.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

Traditionally, artists suffered for their art, now it's the audience.

I don't believe in art. I believe in the artist.

What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that is art; art is the gap

As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use it because I have to, but I don't put any trust in it. We never understand each other.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.