Quotes About Interpretation

La bellezza della fotografia è andare alla ricerca di immagini che non esistono ancora e dare loro un senso.

Some people contend that this means the complete integration of subject and object whenever they meet. This interpretation is interesting in content, but it is not necessarily substantiated by anything in the literature of Zen.

Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.

Try to discover who I am from my choice of words and colors, as attentive people like yourselves might examine footprints to catch a thief.

A letter doesn't communicate by words alone. A letter, just like a book, can be read by smelling it, touching it and fondling it. Thereby, intelligent folk will say, 'Go on then, read what the letter tells you!' whereas the dull-witted will say, 'Go on then, read what he's written!

They were more a new set of ways of looking at the universe, supported by the math, than a set of complex mathematical formulas.

Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't. . .out of respect for DeGaulle and Disraeli. I described him as a cowboy because thats how he described himself. If I were a cowboy I would be offended.

Many people apparently don't trust their reactions to art or to music unless there is a verbal explanation for it. In music the only thing that matters is whether you feel it or not.

Your past cannot stop you from a bright future, but an improper interpretation of your past can be fatal to your future.

To me, the truth is what actually happened. Yet it is impossible to know anything approaching the whole truth about past events. Even the people living them could not possibly understand. That truth is always out of reach.

The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents.

If you want a happy ending, it depends on where you stop the story

Tener o no un final feliz depende de dónde decidas detener la narración de la historia

All great writers are actors, even merely competent ones are. They have the actor's capacity for getting inside the skins of their leading characters and transfiguring them- whatever they may be, even murderers- with what they can give of themselves. They do that quite as much as actors do.

When someone can fill such words with the depth of meaning that they are intended to have, it's like hearing them for the first time.

Haven't we known for a long time that it's a mistake to attach meaning to each and every action of a person? Forced explanations often end in a distortion of lies.

The likable weeds and the not likable weeds looked exactly the same but were somehow clearly divided into those that seemed innocuous and those that seemed horrible. It didn't stand to reason. What a girl likes and what she hates seems rather arbitrary to me.

The concept that all men are created equal was a key to European Enlightenment philosophy. But the interpretation of all men has hovered over the Declaration of Independence since its creation.

Mom JIMMY What if the word yes meant no? MOM Go to sleep, you have school tomorrow JIMMY No MOM Quit playing games with me JIMMY Yes

Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else

I may have said the same thing before...but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.

The proper school to learn art is not life but art

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.