Quotes About Interpretation

Ever wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabetsoup?

A theory may be so rich in descriptive possibilities that it can be made to fit any data.

Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.

I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.

My friend has a baby, I am recording all the noises he makes so I can later ask him what he meant.

I never did very well in mathI could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

There are always two sides to every story.

Once, Picasso was asked what his paintings meant. He said, "Do you ever know what the birds are singing? You don't. But you listen to them anyway." So, sometimes with art, it is important just to look.

Art is not just about another beautiful painting that matches your dining room floor. Art has to be disturbing, art has to ask a question, art has to predict the future.

It taught me that the process was more important than the result, just as the performance means more to me than the object. I saw the process of making it and then the process of its unmaking. There was no duration or stability to it. It was pure process. Later on I read—and loved—the Yves Klein quote: "My paintings are but the ashes of my art.

I believe stories are very important to all performances. The life story of the performer shapes their work, and the life stories of the audience alter how they receive the work, what they read into the performer.

If you learn to be a psychoanalyst, and you're working as a psychoanalyst, your job is in that context. If you're a baker, making bread, you're a baker. If you make the best bread in the world, you're not an artist, but if you bake the bread in the gallery, you're an artist. So the context makes the difference. And my context is art.

Talking about performance is such a strange thing because it's so immaterial. We are talking about soft matter. We are talking about something that is invisible. You can't see it. You can't touch it. You just can feel it.

I'd always thought of art as something that was expressed through certain tools: painting, sculpture, photography, writing, film, music, architecture. And yes, performance. But this performance went beyond performance. This was life.

It's not always the story of what happened to you. It's the story the judge wants to hear.

In a world where everyone wants black-and-white answers, Coyote finger paints in Technicolor.

El contexto tiene una enorme importancia en la manera en la que evaluamos las cosas y, por consiguiente, en el modo en el que nos sentimos.

Lo que sentimos no depende tan solo de lo que esté ocurriendo en el cuerpo y en nuestra fisiología, sino también y, fundamentalmente, de las expectativas y de cómo estamos valorando una determinada situación.

Recipes are just descriptions of one person's take on one moment in time. They're not rules. People think they are. They look as if they are. They say, "Do this, not this. Add this, not that." But, really, recipes are just suggestions that got written down.

James's analogy to illustrate the mind-brain relationship: equating "mind" with "brain" is as illogical as listening to music on a radio, demolishing the radio's receiver, and thereby concluding that the radio was creating the music.

La realidad es un manojo de poemas sobre los cuales nadie reclama derechos de autor.

Todo depende de qué entendés por incorrecto".

Escribe llubia porque en su campito nunca vio que lloviera con ve corta.