Quotes About Interpretation

I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.

To emphasize style is to slight content, or to introduce an attitude which is neutral with respect to content.

Try to take your vision and ego as far away from the song as possible. Give as much respect as you can to the song and the initial inspiration.

Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world.

There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.

I want judges on the Supreme Court who will respect the words and the meaning of the Constitution, the laws enacted by Congress and the laws enacted by state legislatures.

I realise that a novel and a film are different mediums. As artistes, we need to respect other artistes. It also needs a lot of courage to take risks to experiment and interpret known literary works.

Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content.

People who read Anne Lamott, like people who read Anne Rice, believe that tragedy is romantic, but the people who read Anne Lamott believe it ironically.

My landscapes are not only beautiful or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful'.

How many times can you play an action character, or a quirky romantic? Every actor has to find his own way to make each character unique.

Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor we do not remember him in it.

you're an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry

Olmo Panero a traversé les Pyrénées pour nous dire que les mots étaient des parenthèses de silence.

Because the only reality is subjective.

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.

When all is said and done, how do we know but that our own unreason may be better than another's truth? for it has been warmed on our hearths and in our souls, and is ready for the wild bees of truth to hive in it, and make their sweet honey.

Every intelligent person, whether he's an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.

already she drew in the sand with her big toe: King Solomon, as though he were a rubber ball, an apocalyptic, bearded herring, an imperial walking-stick, an amalgam, half chicken and half Solomon.

Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of Kabbalah is its long-hidden connection to the Bible.   Kabbalah says the Bible is a complete code. That's right. It's a cryptogram.

Nunca les doy el infierno. Sólo les digo la verdad y ellos piensan que es el infierno. — Harry S. Truman

Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it most certainly not beautiful