Quotes About Interpretation

Neuznávám žádnou jinou pravdu, kromÄ› pravdy umÄ›lecké lži.

The moment historians examine the past they risk changing it, by selectively re-arranging events, consciously or not, according to the judgment(s) of posterity or their own baggage of values and prejudices.

This music, transmitted by loud-speakers, made a masterpiece appear like an amateurish attempt at composition by nimcompoop

I used to hang a "Do Not Disturb" sign on my office door, but people interpreted this as "His door is closed, but he wants me to know he's in there. I'll knock.") Be

there are a few acts more aggressive than describing someone else

The word 'meaningful' when used today is nearly always meaningless.

When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.

Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it.

Art does not render what is visible, but renders visible.

Kunst gibt nicht das Sichtbare wieder, sondern Kunst macht sichtbar.

I imagined face and genitals to be the corresponding poles of the female sex, when girls wept I thought of pudenda weeping in unison.

What you mean? Whaih you think Gawd is?' Joe remained sullenly silent. His mother's faith was too stalwart for his comprehension. There was nothing like it in his own soul to interpret it.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke." —Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Conjecture piled on speculation and topped by guesswork." "That's called lawyering, Vic. Which, I might remind you, requires an open mind. Creative thinking. Fresh ideas. Not being rigid.

Sometimes, Gerald, people break the law so clearly you can hear it crack like a tree branch snapped in two. But other times, like a baker twisting a roll of dough into a pretzel, you only bend the law. You don't tear it. You don't break it. You end up with something better than the ingredients you started with. And the final result is beautiful to behold.

How to tell a story? First find a point of view.

The key to success is having the awareness to appreciate – in the words of the French novelist Anaïs Nin 'we see the world not as it is but as we are.' It's recognizing that we see events through our own mental filters and give our own meaning to those events – a meaning which may be very different to someone else's.

What a tribute this is to art; what a misfortune this is for history. (In reference to Shakespeare's 'Richard III')

Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It's like falling in love. You can't give a reason why.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

The heroine might be unsure. And the reader. But I don't think the author should be.

You can ask ten different psychiatrists what they might do in a given situation, and you might get ten different answers. And it's possible that none of them would be wrong.

In essence, it is not what it looks like but what it does that defines a symbol.