Quotes About Interpretation

A thing is only right or wrong because you say it is. A thing is not right or wrong intrinsically.

I am more the inspirational type of speller. I work on hunches rather than mere facts, and the result is sometimes open to criticism by purists.

We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.

All poetic inspiration is but dream interpretation.

What you see is filtered through your beliefs. You rarely see "reality." You see your version of it.

What the artist must render is a living moment somehow, a living moment actually in action or an inward experience.

A choreographic idea flows only as fast as the initiator can communicate it to bodies and see them realize it.

Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.

When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think.

It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens." Epictetus

The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.

A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the myth.

I see little more important to the future of our country and our civilization than the full recognition of the place of the artist.

... humans have such a need to break everything down into right and wrong. It never occurs to you that you've made those labels up to help you define the material-and your Self.

The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us.

The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent, a new articulation, renew them.

Words are deceptive. You think you understand something because it's explained to you and now you are under no obligation to do anything because you understand it.

A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck.

You can make hell out of heaven and heaven out of hell. It's all in the mind.

One thing I have learned is, if people tell you they had a "frank" discussion with someone, it is usually code for a yelling match with clenched fists.

I think the overall mood of the music informs the artwork, but I've found that good lyrics can be inspirational, too.

Communication: the thing humans forgot when we invented words.

The art of the word is painting + architecture + music.

Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.