Quotes About Interpretation

Generate an idea which you can follow, not what people would interpret.

Neither right nor wrong. It is all manipulation of thoughts.

If you never understand my silence, you will never understand my words.

Things are neither good nor bad, all that matters is our thinking....!

Any philosophy is a sacrilege against creation. It just gives people the kinds of explanations that they want to hear.

Everybody has theology whether they admit it or not.

Painting a picture is writing a poem with paint.

I understand your actions more than your conversations.

What you see is not real. It is a misinterpretation of our false perceptions.

The moon is the same but the observers are different.

It is not important what you see, but it is important the way you see it.

Give me a one-handed Economist. All my economists say 'on hand...', then 'but on the other...

Don't criticize me because of what I write, because for all you know, I could be right!

I believe that fiction with its untrammelled nature, speaks to no one, and by so doing, speaks to all.

To me, the body says what words cannot. I believe that dance was the first art.

Between words and objects one can create new relations and specify characteristics of language and objects generally ignored in everyday life.

To most people who look at a mobile, it's no more than a series of flat objects that move. To a few, though, it may be poetry.

The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.

People who look for symbolic meaning fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the images.

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.

Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.