Quotes About Interpretation

The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.

We have the freedom to decide for ourselves how circumstances affect us and can choose to interpret events so that they have a meaning for us. In this way, even suffering can become endurable if it can be shown to be meaningful.

I want Jesus to come back and say 'THATS NOT WHAT I MEANT'" -

she too lives in and for words, for the words of others. Other men's flowers. 'These are other men's flowers, only the string that binds them is my own.

there's a difference between what happens to one in real life and what one can make real in art.

For the past is not fixed: it changes as we change, and we look back and perceive in it different messages, different patterns. Our past selves speak to our future selves. We are part of a continuing process.

Thus we use our supposed "knowledge" of others to speak on their behalf, and condemn them for their words we ourselves put in their silent mouths.

What is one person's diversion may be another's supreme test.

The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality. Reality is above all else a variable. With a firm enough commitment, you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before.

The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality

We are, always, poets, exploring possibilities of meaning in a world which is also all the time exploring possibilities.

Only when something ends can we understand what it has meant. In

IF YOU BELIEVE THE DOCTORS," Salisbury once remarked, "nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe.

Part of Nietzsche's appeal was that it was easy to read a great deal into his work, and people including socialists, vegetarians, feminists, conservatives and, later, the Nazis did. Sadly, Nietzsche was not available to explain himself; he went mad in 1889 and died in 1900, the year of the Paris Exposition.

Reading is very creative - it's not just a passive thing. I write a story; it goes out into the world; somebody reads it and, by reading it, completes it.

Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines.

I would take care you speak of her with respect for, of course, I will interpret any disrespect for her as disrespect for me.

The challenge is quite formidable if you spell it out explicitly: artists must look at a three-dimensional scene with their two-dimensional retinas and then generate a two-dimensional painting that appears three-dimensional to viewers who look at it with their two-dimensional retinas.

Eventually you will get into the habit of enjoying line as a language all of its own.

I sing without knowing what my song means, and whether the listening world is amazed or wounded.

We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves.

Every artist creates with open eyes what she sees in her dream.

Different versions of a true story

Dialogue is a wolf in sheep's clothing—often pretending to be woolly and vague, actually all teeth and meaning. Even