Quotes About Interpretation

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun

When you're reading something, your imagination goes and you see it in your mind. Sometimes my instincts with that are right, and sometimes they're wrong.

I prefer images that are less specific, so there is room for everyone's imagination.

It is the form the idea takes in the imagination rather than the form as it exists outside.

The historian has before him a jigsaw puzzle from which many pieces have disappeared. These gaps can be filled only by his imagination.

It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.

People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination

[Great artists] do not copy what they see, but what they desire.

If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel?

Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.

I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination

I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier.

Two thousand years ago, five thousand, they didn't have a word for imagination, and faith was the best they could come up with for a pretty solemn bunch of followers.

Your imagination is your most important tool, as an actor, as cheesy as that sounds.

To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination.

I'm really the addition of other peoples' imagination, quite honestly. It's what they see me as, and I'm very happy to comply. I find things are more varied that way.

What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.

I think that is the secret of great acting. You have to bring your imagination to the party. You've got to have a great imagination.

To be an actor or actress, you have to feel on a deep level and tap into emotions that you've never felt before. You're imagining how something would feel. You have to use your imagination so much.

Personally there is first: imagination; second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing.

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.

Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.

Art is the manipulation of someone else's imagination.

All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them.