Quotes About Interpretation

What each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but on pictures made by himself or given to him...

There is no more merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to find out what is wrong with a stalled motorcar. In each case it is special knowledge.

The pressed oil of words can blaze up into music, into image, into the heart and mind's knowledge. The lit and shadowed places within us can be warmed.

I have this tendency to take a little bit of questionable knowledge and riff on it.

Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows.

The world we see is a painting colored by our fears and desires.

The one who says he doesn't understand anything about art, doesn't know himself.

They say that knowledge is power. I believe that is only partially true. Knowledge is power only if your Wise Self interprets how it relates to you.

Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?

You are the only person who can label what you do a failure. Failure is subjective.

When your vision is a biblical vision, the people arguing with it are not arguing with you. They are arguing with God.

If we're all on the same page, no one's reading the whole book.

If a preacher tells you how God says you are, I don't see how you can say that's bad preaching.

You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.

Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to write well you have to forget the grammar.

Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.

It's not just about looking and copying, it's about feeling too

We must learn, and we are gradually learning, how to write history with the help of archaeology.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

Learning is the making of meaning.

My words itch at your ears till you understand them

Don't ask what it means, but rather how it is used.

I learned a lot about acting - watching not just myself but other actors and learning how to distinguish between two great takes. It's also about one's own taste in performance.