Quotes About Interpretation

If the point of drawing was to bring your work into the world so that other people could see it and sense what you'd meant to convey, then, no, Gil should not keep giving it a whirl: he should never draw anything again. No whirls. It should be illegal for Gil Wolf to possess charcoal sticks. But if the point was something else, expression or release, or a way to give private meaning to the loss of your son, your child, your boy, then yes, he should draw and draw.

All written words danced in a chain for her, creating corresponding images as clear as the boy from Iran's bouncing family.

Cuvintele conteaz?. Asta a spus doamna Quenell de la bun început. Cuvintele conteaz?. Întreg semestrul am c?utat cuvintele cu care s? spunem ceea ce trebuia s? spunem. Ne c?ut?m propria noastr? voce.

In the past, people appreciated artwork. Now artwork appreciates?

They wanted someone to say the thing that they could then take into themselves and transform into something else. A word might land in a certain way; or maybe not even a word. Maybe a gesture, or a moment of listening.

Her letters were still bubbled and fat and juvenile, creating a disconnect between the content of what she was writing and the way she wrote it. Who would even take it seriously?

The world is a fiction the brain constructs. The smell of a fresh peach, the punch of a firefly in the night sky. The lilting hush-hush of a first lullaby. The brain fashions it all and we don't know how or why.

Let me show you what I know of it," he murmured. "Your mouth can be considered a hundred ways. Rico would look at it and he would see the light and shade; Byron Sawyer would see the color; yet another artist might see the line. A hundred truths, and not one is wrong. There are no original ideas, darling, only original visions. Each of us would draw your lips a different way, yet none of us could capture the complete essence of them.

All men have the stars, but they are not the same things for different people.

Crazy is a state of mind usually interpreted by other people.

the importance of words as "the signs of our thoughts and feelings in all their minutest shades and variations.

The truth is often so much more complicated than the digest version that's handed down to us.

If you called for nuance, you were part of the problem.

I'd get it wrong anyway; everyone who hasn't lived there thirty years or more gets accused of getting it wrong)

For us, a pretty bird is a pretty bird; for an insect, pretty bird is an ugly enemy!

Literature is a microscope; it shows us the unseen!

Master Sigmund Freud once said that wherever I go, I find a poet has been there before me. This is simply because science either walks or runs but art has wings to fly!

The beauty of the moonlight has no meaning for the bats and for the unfeeling minds!

The inauspiciousness of the owl is nothing but the inauspiciousness of the man who thinks that owl is inauspicious!

The ugliness of the beauty is much horrible than the ugliness of the ugliness.

There is a way to change your past: Change your interpretation of your past! New interpretation, new past!

We don't have only two eyes; we have hundreds of wonderful eyes, because there are hundreds of wonderful photographers!

We find life in art and we find art in life!

they do him wrong who take God just in one particular way. They take the way rather than God' (Sermon 19).