Quotes About Interpretation

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

To draw, you must close your eyes and sing

That's the thing, chato. I'm not the one to tell it, and you aren't the one to hear it, but rest assured that it'd be pretty tough to figure out …

just because a point is well made, doesn't mean it's right.

hesitated, knowing that he was talking about

My feeling says there is history here. But sometimes a thing might feel true to me, not because it is, but because the writer believes it is.

Thompson, who has a French mother and an English father, points out that kids often get very angry at their parents when parents block them. She says English-speaking parents often interpret this anger as a sign that the parents doing something wrong. But she warns that parents should't mistake angering a child for bad parenting.

Brian noted Stephenson's thin face and was surprised to find that the term looking daggers was not as impossible as it had always sounded.

To whom do books belong? The books we read and the books we write are both ours and not ours. They're also theirs.

Every kiss has its own meaning. As the early-twentieth-century French chanteuse Mistinguett said: "A kiss can be a comma, a question mark, or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know.

Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.

Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice.

Non si riferisce il reale, lo si proferisce.

Sulla parete, un'icona di San Nicola convive senza problemi con le tette di una bionda da calendario per camionisti.

Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.

The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

Love and hell are alike in that respect; they are what you bring to them. The script is yours; only the props are furnished.

hear the language, this English, double-jointed as Bedivere's limbs. It only sounds awkward. In its ability to join one concept to another as with pegs, its dependent clauses, figures of speech and cadenced alliteration, a man can say one thing five ways and yet imply a sixth; can change meaning with an inflection, a pause or a deliberate misuse of a word, can mock, scorn and flay an opponent without uttering one overt insult.

we cannot see what is "out there" merely by looking around. Everything depends on the lenses through which we view the world. By putting on new lenses, we can see things that would otherwise remain invisible.

From the beginning, our lives lay down clues to selfhood and vocation, though the clues may be hard to decode. But trying to interpret them is profoundly worthwhile—especially when we are in our twenties or thirties or forties, feeling profoundly lost, having wandered, or been dragged, far away from our birthright gifts.

Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it's a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredients on a chewing gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe. -Super man

Vous faites de la musique, Monsieur. Vous n'êtes pas musicien.

Men carve meaning into women's faces; messages addressed to other men.