Quotes About Interpretation

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

We do not judge great art. It judges us.

Have we not all about us forms of a musical expression which we can take and purify and raise to the level of great art?.

And I think that's a singer's job. You know, to really interpret a lyric. There's an art to it, and I think some people are really great at it, like Tammy Wynette and George Jones and Tony Bennett.

All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.

It's a great idea: to feel the rhythm of something by seeing how it flows on a page.

Great art must be a living thing, or it is not art at all.

Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.

This is a great opportunity for musicians to display their talent by re-interpreting some classic Kinks songs. Good luck, enjoy, be creative... be outrageous!

I think the actors take a great responsibility for the characters in the movie.

The great artists represent you. The great products represent you. They don't tell you who you are. But with them, you require less verbiage.

I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.

My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues.

Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.

I don't have a great talent for explaining myself in acting because I can't explain it.

Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things.

Like great art, something essential dies when great jokes are explained. So what's the key to telling a good joke/creating great art timing.

There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes distressing to my students when I tell them this.

There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.

I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.

I've read the Bible. I think the Bible's a great book, but it's a novel. It's beautifully written and la-di-da, but people really took it the wrong way.

There's no way to replicate a really great vocal sometimes.

An important function of the Supreme Court is to provide guidance, .. As a lower court judge, I appreciate clear guidance from the Supreme Court.

It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him.