Quotes About Interpretation

Future art that is based on appearances won't look like the art that's gone before. Even revivals of a period are not the same.

Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future.

Two-thirds of a century after [The Road to Serfdom] got written, hindsight confirms how inaccurate its innuendo about the future turned out to be.

I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.

The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight.

The goal for the photographer is be visually articulate.

I consider painting as a means of expression, not as a goal.

My goals in Holland were known as 'stiffies', which means something quite different in England of course.

When caricaturist, Al Hirschfeld, did a drawing of a celebrity, it often looked more like the person than the person did. That's our goal in animation.

The goal of art-making in general is communication.

My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail.

I speak two languages, Body and English.

I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

A film is never really any good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

For your information, I would like to ask a question.

When a woman says nothing's wrong that means everything is wrong and when a woman says everything's wrong that means everything is wrong. - Homer Simpson

You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was really made from his funny bone.