Quotes About Interpretation

Without going into detail, after many years I have become convinced that the biblical references to same-sex behavior were written in a situational and cultural context that does not apply to people with a homosexual orientation, and that the Bible does not give specific instruction regarding how homosexuals should live.

I think intelligence is totally subjective it's like sexiness.

Las palabras no siempre necesitan un destino. Se les permite detenerse en las fronteras de las sensaciones.

Las palabras siempre tiene una meta, buscan la mirada ajena. Escribir para uno mismo sería como hacer el equipaje para no marcharse.

Auf die ein oder andere Weise erkennt sich ein Leser in einem Buch immer selbst wieder. Angeregtes Lesen ist die totale Egomanie. Man ist automatisch auf der Suche nach dem, was einen persönlich anspricht. Ein Autor kann eine völlig groteske und unwahrscheinlich anmutende Geschichte erzählen, es wird immer einen Leser geben, der verkündet: »Unglaublich, Sie haben mein Leben aufgeschrieben!«

Bueno, comprendo: usted no habla. Es raro, habría jurado lo contrario. Tiene pinta de tener sus teorías. Quizás me las cuente después, ¿es así? Me hará una síntesis. Si tenemos tiempo. Con lo que yo he vivido, necesitaríamos por lo menos un siglo para este análisis. Un siglo incluyendo los días feriados.

How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it's just words.

The world ultimately is what we say it is.

There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values.

A work of art is an act of love. Critics are crab lice.

The problem is that one man's superstition is another man's religion, and vice versa. Many Protestants today still see Catholicism as being rife with superstition, ... while atheists and agnostics would see bien-pensant Protestants as worshiping an equally absurd form of the supernatural.

He tried to draw a woman and it looked like a house. He tried to draw a man and it looked like a really old house. He tried to draw a house and it looked like a fucked-up cow.

Historians are aware of all this. Yet the overwhelming majority still conclude that even when European authors explicitly say they are borrowing ideas, concepts and arguments from indigenous thinkers, one should not take them seriously.

One could in fact interpret this list as a subtle way of saying that the only way of "freeing oneself" from the debt was not literally repaying debts, but rather showing that these debts do not exist because one is not in fact separate to begin with, and hence that the very notion of canceling the debt and achieving a separate, autonomous existence was ridiculous from the start.

One thing that will quickly become clear is that the prevalent 'big picture' of history – shared by modern-day followers of Hobbes and Rousseau alike – has almost nothing to do with the facts.

It seems that whenever there's a word for something everyone agrees to be desirable—"truth," "beauty," "love," "democracy"—then there will be no consensus as to what it really means.

The Chinese represent crisis with two pictographs: danger and opportunity. The

the ability to get on the air, which was crucial to any reporter's career, grew precisely as the ability to analyze diminished.

David Herbert Donald

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.