Quotes About Interpretation

The way liberals are interpreting the First Amendment today is that it prevents anyone who is religious from being in government.

The President and the Congress are all very well in their way. They can say what they think they think, but it rests with the Supreme Court to decide what they have really thought.

It's not what the world holds for you. It's what you bring to it.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

I think design, to a degree, is more generous and more humanistic than art, though great art can move us more.

I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.

All great art contains an element of the irrational.

Every great work of art has two faces, one towards its own time and one towards future, towards eternity.

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

I am attracted only to music which I consider to be better than it can be performed.

No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.

I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.

I started studying as an artist, but I got fed up with the fact that you can paint terrible pictures and if you explain them in an erudite way it's called great art. I thought this was rubbish.

Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings.

I think my great book is Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song.

Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

Is it the obligation of great art to be continually interesting? I think not.

Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction!

If Brideshead Revisited is not a great book, it's so like a great book that many of us, at least while reading it, find it hard to tell the difference.