Quotes About Interpretation

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.

Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things.

The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet.

I want to show people how there are variations and different interpretations of good and evil.

This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has invented its own language of customs and rights.

Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.

I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of.

Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one.

The powers contained in a constitution...ought to be construed liberally in advancement of the public good.

Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.

Our constitution, in short, is a judge-made constitution, and it bears on its face all the features, good and bad, of judge-made law.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Good art is in the wallet of the beholder.

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

A good book is never finished—-it goes on whispering to you from the wall.

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

With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It's a good exercise to do.

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.

The best way to spoil a good story is by sticking to the facts.

In my mind, there isn't as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and a bad one.

For the people who believe, you don't have to explain, and for the people who don't believe, no explanation is good enough.