Quotes About Interpretation

Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.

A painting is above all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy. If, at a later stage, he wants to add two or three touches from nature, of course it doesn't spoil anything.

That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.

Bad teaching is teaching which presents an endless procession of meaningless signs, words and rules, and fails to arouse the imagination.

For me, the novel is experience illumined by imagination.

How can you read this? There's no pictures!" "Well, some people use their imagination." – Gaston & Belle

What people dont know about you people create. Imagination is a part of being human. They fill in the unknowns with assumptions and not facts. Every man and woman is a mystery unrevealed.

The key for any speaker is to establish his own point of view for the audience, so they can see the game through his eyes.

Imagination doesn't always mean looking outside of the box, but taking a closed box and seeing a different world from within it.

we compose our life in stories we tell ourselves

There is no such thing as an "independent artist". All artists are essentially co-dependent of the audience.

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.

When there's something in the Bible that churches don't like, they call it 'legalism.'

Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

Being that can be understood is language.

Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

The mark of a good book is it changes every time you read it.

The important thing is not the camera but the eye.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery.

When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.