Quotes About Interpretation

When life life does not find a singer to sing her heart, she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.

The secret of life is in art.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.

The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Always attempt to understand whatever you see, whatever you hear and whatever you perceive. There is a hidden meaning behind everything, hence things are not always as they seem.

There are two sides to every story, and more often than not somewhere in the middle you will find the truth.

Good things can be bad if you look at the dark side. Bad things can be good if you look at the bright side.

We're always quick to judge an open book, sometimes it pays to read between the lines, a lesson to be learnt only set by the truth.

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Bir sanatç? dünyay? sadece bir hayalin tasvirinde kullan?lacak bir malzeme olarak görür.

Swann's words might have had the result of distorting my eventual understanding of the sonata, as music is so versatile, too prone to suggestion to exclude entirely whatever somebody hints we might hear in it.

The fact is that they probably regarded aesthetic merits as material objects which an open eye could not help perceiving, without one's needing to ripen equivalents of them slowly in one's own heart.

It must be admitted that the results of this method of interpreting the art of making presents were not always happy. The idea which I formed of Venice, from a drawing by Titian which is supposed to have the lagoon in the background, was certainly far less accurate than what I have since derived from ordinary photographs.

Marcel's attempts to interpret Albertine are constantly deflected—by Aimé's unreliable letters, by Albertine's misinterpreted telegrams, by Marcel's failure to recognize Gilberte at the Guermantes. All of these misreadings could be seen as part of a general comedy or tragedy of social misunderstanding and psychological failure to grasp the nature of other people, as well as one's own self.

We come to its aid; we falsify it by memory and by suggestion;

Car ce que les gens ont fait, ils le recommencent indéfiniment. Et qu'on aille voir chaque année un ami qui les premières fois n'a pu venir à votre rendez-vous, ou s'est enrhumé, on le retrouvera avec un autre rhume qu'il aura pris, on le manquera à un autre rendez-vous où il ne sera pas venu, pour une même raison permanente à la place de laquelle il croit voir des raisons variées, tirées des circonstances.

We are very slow in recognising in the peculiar physiognomy of a new writer the type which is labelled 'great talent' in our museum of general ideas. Simply because that physiognomy is new and strange, we can find in it no resemblance to what we are accustomed to call talent. We say rather originality, charm, delicacy, strength; and then one day we add up the sum of these, and find that it amounts simply to talent.

Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and create an atmosphere.