Quotes About Interpretation

What we are able to say about our intimate relation with a book will have more force if we have not thought about it excessively. Instead, we need only let our unconscious express itself within us and give voice, in this privileged moment of openness in language, to the secret ties that bind us to the book, and therefore to ourselves.

L'auteur n'attend nullement un résumé ou un commentaire argumenté de son livre et il est même préférable que ceux-ci ne lui soient pas donnés, il attend seulement, en préservant la plus grande ambiguïté possible, qu'on lui dise avoir aimé ce qu'il a écrit.

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.

It's not a matter of painting life. It's a matter of giving life to painting.

Speaking, when you have something to say, is like looking. But who looks? If people could see properly, and see whole, they would all be painters. And it's because people have no idea how to look that they hardly ever understand.

Si consideramos la hipótesis de que la gente no es leída, se entienden muchas cosas que no se han comprendido durante mucho tiempo pensando que ha sido leída.

esthétique telle qu'elle la décrit naïvement.

Thus, for an adequate interpretation of the differences found between the classes or within the same class as regards their relation to the various legitimate arts, painting, music, theatre, literature etc., one would have to analyse fully the social uses, legitimate or illegitimate, to which each of the arts, genres, works or institutions considered lends itself. For example, nothing more clearly affirms one's 'class', nothing more infallibly classifies, than tastes in music.

peut-être n'est-il pas excessif de voir dans le poème significativement intitulé « Héautontimoroumenos » [« celui qui se punit lui-même »]

A comunicação é instantânea porque, em certo sentido, ela não existe.

On n'écrit pas ce qu'on veut, dit Flaubert. Et c'est vrai. Maxime [Du Camp] écrit ce qu'il veut, lui, ou à peu près. Mais ce n'est pas écrire110.

In the case of sociology however, we are always walking on hot coals, and the things we discuss are alive, they're not dead and buried

Se habla a sí mismo, pero tenemos la impresión de que se dirige a cada uno de entre nosotros.

People would much rather argue their own visions and conceptions about a book than engage in a dialogue with the author, because the author could always trump you with, 'I wrote it.'

I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.

When you're an actor, you're a slave to other people's visions.

In a lot of ways, the cool thing about modeling is that other people and artists I look up to are able to project their artistic visions onto me, and it was really exciting to be a muse in that way and carry out a vision.

One of the questions I face when working on a book about a historical event is whether I should visit the actual place that I'm writing about. No matter how scrupulously maintained a historic house or battlefield may be, it is nothing like it was in the long-ago past.

You know, when I eat three peas, I'm pregnant. When I visit a city, I'm buying a house.

Art is often defined as a famous masterpiece in a gallery, and we are meant to visit the work and view it to appreciate it. But that is not all there is.

I never really liked the Gospel of John because I never could find the humanity of Jesus in it. I thought it presented Jesus as a visitor from another planet; in addition, John's gospel is and has been interpreted as a document that fuels anti-Semitism in the church.

Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.

When you are adapting a book to a visual medium, you tend to leave a few things and add a few new ones.