Quotes About Interpretation

Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions

If you don't know how to look, you'll end up putting down the wrong things, which only dilutes or cancels the power of your artwork.

Those who wish, in the interest of morality, to reduce Leonardo, that inexhaustible source of creative power, to a neutral or sexless agency, have a strange idea of doing service to his reputation.

A 'living constitution' is a dead constitution, because it does not do the one and only thing a written constitution is supposed to do: provide parameters around the power of officials.

Those who would give us a "living" Constitution are actually giving us a dead one, since such a thing is completely unable to protect us against the encroachments of government power.

In principle, any abstraction of the object is allowed which has a sufficiently strong creative power behind it.

The Fun Girl video which was directed by Bijoux Altamarino really came out of her vision. I feel she understood the mystery, danger and power of the song and It really came through in the end.

How do we see physically? No differently that we do in our consciousness - by means of the productive power of imagination. Consciousness is the eye and ear, the sense for inner and outer meaning.

The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.

It's possible to paint a monumental picture that's only 10 inches wide, if one has a sense of scale, which is very different from a sense of size.

I believe the power of Economics is to help provide a unique lens for looking at the world.

Life is not what happens to you but what you think about it.

Words, ' he said, 'is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.

A picture can tell a thousand words, but a few words can change it's story.

What words cannot convey ... the mind can read.

Remember: the universe neither judges, nor interprets, nor second guesses your will. If it did, there would be no poverty, no hunger, no suffering.

When silence become silent, it speaks silently but loudly

The world is a complex place, and the influence of the media in its representation and its power of communication and interpretation is a remarkable amplifier of emotions, and of illusions.

Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don't try and mean it. Nor prayers. The liturgy is best treated and read as if it's someone announcing the departure of trains.

It may be that ministers really think that their prayers do good, and it may be that frogs imagine that their croaking brings spring.

When we pray "in the Name of Jesus" the answers are in accordance with His nature and if we think our prayers are unanswered it is because we are not interpreting the answer along this line.

The picture is not made by the photographer, the picture is more good or less good in function of the relationship that you have with the people you photograph.

Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to the situation that has value. All the meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.

Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.