Quotes About Interpretation

Who learns most from a good book is the author.

I think good art, if I could be pretentious enough to say, I think good art deals with the micro to explain the macro.

There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.

Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical.

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

What I'm working on is for people to be able to say that Kippenberger had this really good mood

No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.

All good Literature rests primarily on insight.

In its happiest efforts, translation is but approximation, and its efforts are not often happy. A translation may be good as translation, but it cannot be an adequate reproduction of the original.

I think it's good when people don't write good things about your work. I mean, what a great compliment it is to be called a charlatan.

Things that appear unlikely, impossible, or paradoxical from one point of view often make perfectly good sense from another.

Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.

Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to cover the loss of mystery.

In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.

All good writing leaves something unexpressed.

For me really good acting is about subtext.

Good actors, you always know what they're thinking. That's why they're good actors.

A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.

I think a good director is a good listener.

It is a very good exercise, at least from a historian's point of view, to imagine oneself a devout pagan while reading various Christian writings.

What's devil to some is good to some others.

Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.

Good and bad, I define these terms, quite clear, no doubt, somehow.

We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when performed by ourselves.