Quotes About Interpretation

Rzecz prosta, im m?drzejszy czytelnik, tym i ksi??ka oka?e si? m?drzejsza; im za? czytelnik g?upszy i bardziej ja?owy, tym i ksi??ka b?dzie g?upsza.

Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.

The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.

When, for instance, we say that a literary work is good or bad, we are making a value judgment (...) Objective evidence for subjective preferences does not makes the value judgment itself objective, but merely objectifies the preference.

The method of political science is the interpretation of life its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.

There is more of a nation's politics to be got out of its poetry than out of all its systematic writers on public affairs and constitutions.

The immortality of Thomas Jefferson does not lie in any one of his achievements, or in the series of his achievements, but in his attitude towards mankind and the conception which he sought to realize in action of the service owed by America to the rest of the world...Thomas Jefferson was a great leader of men because he understood and interpreted the spirits of men.

I think that the tendency for most people is to fall back on a comic interpretation of things -- because things are so sad, so terrible. If you didn't laugh you'd kill yourself.

I know what I think but I don't know how to put it into words. Maybe I could get a little bit drunk and dance it for you.

Questo è l'arte: saper interpretare lo spirito del proprio tempo, saper cogliere il vento del cambiamento e prendere il largo a gonfie vele.

Many great writers address audiences who do not exist; to address passionately and sometimes with very great wisdom people who do not exist has this advantage—that there will always be a group of people who, seeing a man shouting apparently at somebody or other, and seeing nobody else in sight, will think it is they who are being addressed.

Anything that survives the artist's death is not life but belated drama.

Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.

I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.

What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.

Music is always for the listener, but the first listener is always the musician

A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it. But it is unbecoming in an artist to talk about inspiration; that is the reader's business.

To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally.

I like poems where you don't really know whether to laugh or cry when you read them.

If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods' bodies the same shape as their own.

There are numerous layers to truth, and the simple and superficial statement of facts cannot satisfy the writer.

Men always look differently at women, even if it's not your intention it is wrongly interpreted as such.

And what will happen if words disappear?

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