Quotes About Interpretation

A British actor will savour every syllable of a Shakespearean line, while a French actor will drive to the end of a sentence or a speech with a propulsive rhythm: the thing you never say to a French actor is, 'Take your time.'

It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.

Like any art, what is the most imprisoning thing is also the most delivering thing. If an actor knows he only has 12 syllables in a line, the challenge is, 'How can I interpret the meaning and contain it without going one syllable over?'

I used to print out lyrics from Nas songs and write my own lyrics in the same syllable count but with different words and different rhymes.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

We often find far more power in a symbol than in something that is an an actuality.

In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better.

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.

The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.

When you think about musicians who are reading music, my contention has always been the energy that you're using deciphering what the symbol is is taking away from the maximum creative energy that you might have had if you understood that it's but a symbol.

When does an object become a symbol? All I know is you cannot force it.

There is a lot of contradictions of mermaids as a symbol. I'm always interested in contradictions.

Prateik means symbol so I symbolise certain things in my life.

Once my paintings are complete, the model no longer lives in the painting as themselves. I see something bigger, more symbolic - an archetype.

I'm not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic.

I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist.

We had taken the cups for coffee out of the building as a cost-saving measure, but left the coffee. Somebody thought it was symbolic to do this.

To try to convey literally what the Garden of Eden was like is meaningless. What matters is its symbolic function.

Religions have always adopted rich symbolic languages to signify the different aspects of their respective forms of faith and mythology.

I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness.

The language of clothing is high symbolism and we all, in moments where we need to know this, realize it.

Studio D has a lot of symbolism for me.

The true symbolism of every facet of 'Guernica' can only be guessed at, but we do know that it haunted Picasso.

I remember when I was in film school. It was my second year, and some kid did - had this really over-religious symbolism; like, it said 'John 3:16' and had angels falling over, and it was just this insane - it wasn't that great.