Quotes About Interpretation

We interpret the actions of others as malicious when they might be totally innocent. And how we interpret their actions is what upsets us.

Words simply mean what people think they mean when they say them.

When a book is read an irrevocable thing happens — a murder, followed by an imposture. The story in the mind murders the story on the page, and takes its place.

Wahrnehmung ist unsere Sicht auf die Welt und uns durch die Brille unserer Ãœberzeugungen.

Of course there is a God, just not like the one taught by the blind who lead the blind.

the problem isn't finding data, it's figuring out what to do with it.

what I found difficult was the mixture of finger pointing and sanctimony in the whole piece, your righteous standpoint over the material, I wasn't so sure about that

Being a good Hans Haacke student, part of his influence on me is that there's no difference between a gallery show and a film - or even an ad and a T-shirt-in terms of cultural legitimacy. They're just different contexts in which to have some sort of communication.

La sabiduría es la habilidad para interpretar una situación a través de los ojos de Dios.

How beautiful black-and-white is. It's not literal. It's a metaphor automatically, already saying, this is not life, it's ABOUT life.

It's not a film-maker's job to explain his technique, but to tell his story the best way he can.

Recuerde que la capacidad de su compañía para ser competitiva y sobrevivir reside no tanto en las propias soluciones sino en la capacidad de las personas de su organización para interpretar una situación y establecer soluciones. Además, usted no tiene que ser perfecto, sino tan solo mejor que sus competidores en lo que se refiere a su producto o servicio.

It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.

When a body moves, it's the most revealing thing. Dance for a minute, and I'll tell you who you are.

Writers don't live their lives. They are simply making a report on it.

The English and German words are almost identical: "tact" and "takt." The cultural definitions, however, are about as similar as if they were "goose down" and "blitzkrieg.

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.

However beautiful a song may be, it is just a tune to those who do not understand its meaning.

See, music is about style.

Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.

Masculine and feminine stories cannot have the same ending.

Bog o tebi nema pojma; on niti vidi tvoje namere, niti tvoje misli, ni tvoja dela. To što ti je an?eo došao u san i buncao, zna?i samo da nije imao gde da preno?i, a napolju je verovatno padala kiša. A što je kratko ostao, to je po svoj prilici jer mu je u tvome snu suviše smrdelo. Operi svoje snove drugi put...

He taught him to wag his trunk like a tail. Then Arnold painted the most beautiful cat's face on the elephant.