Quotes About Interpretation

A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.

Everyone is influenced by everybody but you bring it down home the way you feel it.

Played percussively, the piano is a bore. If I go to a concert and someone plays like that I have two choices: go home or go to sleep. The goal is to make the piano sing, sing, sing.

The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home.

It's not stalking if you don't follow them home, right?

I hoped you would consider it seriously instead of laughing at it.' 'Mr. Chamkanni said much the same thing in bed the first night home from the hospital

In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare. I can't stand it.

I'm something like the old soak who never knew whether his wife told him to take one drink and come home at 12, or take 12 and come home at one.

I'm very at home working with mythology.

I think if a poet wanted to lead, he or she would want the message to be unequivocally clear and free of ambiguity. Whereas poetry is actually the home of ambiguity, ambivalence and uncertainty.

I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake.

Making art has first of all to do with honesty. My first lesson was to see objectively, to erase all meaning of the thing seen. Then only could the real meaning of it be understood and felt.

Drawing is the honesty of art.

The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is certain to falsify his facts.

The humble sinner will sometimes be interpreted as one of the filthiest in the eyes of man yet immersed in the eyes of God, and this is due to the volition of honesty regarding his own corruption.

Taken out of context I must seem so strange.

The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.

My hope is to shed light, provoke thought, entertain, and move through dance.

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

If a Million People See My Movie, I Hope They See a Million Different Movies.

You make an open-ended proposition and the audience completes it somehow. That's what you hope an artwork to be-a constantly living thing.

Whether or not we have hope depends on two dimensions of our explanatory style; pervasiveness and permanence.

Photography, too, reduces the world to strips and rectangles; photographers scrutinize the surfaces of reality in hope of unlocking the potential for significance that is latent within them.

I definitely dislike pomposity and artifice. I hope that I'm not that. Once I write a song, it belongs to the world, and the way people perceive it, it's cool.