Quotes About Interpretation

one of the most important things when it comes to painting is being able to stop at the right time, to know when a picture is saying what it can say, if you keep going too long then more often than not the picture'll be ruined...

what's beautiful in life turns out bad in a painting because it's like there's too much beauty, a good picture needs something bad in it in order to shine the way it should, it needs darkness in it..." ? Jon Fosse

Waaal, there's some would call it a bush, I suppose, but I call it a tree. If I'm ever in doubt about how much credit to give a thing, I always give it more, to be on the safe side.

We tend to see more through our thoughts and opinions than through our eyes.

We want to make certain that we view culture through the eyes of faith, that we don't view our faith through the eyes of culture.

A broken mirror is good luck if you want it to be.

I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.

Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the family of the author.

Revelation: a famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.

A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.

Fantasy is like jam. . . . You have to spread it on a solid piece of bread. If not, it remains a shapeless thing . . . out of which you can't make anything.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

The photographer and the director are where reality and fantasy meet.

Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?

Dreams are not without meaning wherever they may come from — from fantasy, from the elements, or from another inspiration.

There's a time and place for everything, and I believe it's called 'fan fiction'.

In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.

For me, the distinction between documentaries and feature films is not so clear - my "documentaries" were largely scripted, rehearsed, and repeated, and have a lot of fantasy and concoction in them.

Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic.

There's a very fine line between one person's reality and another person's fantasy.

Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.

Fantasy for the most part is really just reality reflected through a storybook lens.

I didn't have a great grasp of what guys considered a "come hither" look, so maybe I gave him one. I'd thought it was a "leave me the hell alone" look, but who knew. ~ Lana from Moonlight

Just tell yourself they're only stories. Pamela K. Kinney (Spectre Nightmares and Visitations)