Quotes About Interpretation

I have decided to leave Clea's last letter un-answered. I no longer wish to coerce anyone, to make promises, to think of life in terms of compacts, resolutions, covenants. It will be up to Clea to interpret my silence according to her own needs and desires, to come to me if she has need or not, as the case may be. Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?

Balthazar sighed and said Truth naked and unashamed. That's a splendid phrase. But we always see her as she seems, never as she is. Each man has his own interpretation.

Each of our five senses contains an art.

He hablado de la inutilidad del arte, pero no he dicho la verdad sobre el consuelo que procura.

This weird translation of feelings into gestures which belied words and words which belied gestures, confused and disoriented her. She needed someone to tell her whether to laugh or to cry.

Even "time is money" comes into the picture; and then, if you think that money is excrement for the Freudian, you understand that time must be also!

only there, in the silences of the painter or the writer can reality be reordered, reworked and made to show its significant side.

Of course, one must always remember that truth itself is always halved in utterance.

[Elbowing incident] was a joke but what I want to say now is that I'm a bit sad that everyone failed to see that.

What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially if he has had between four and seven beers.

They could read him, they could study him, they could pick him apart, but they couldn't laugh or be sad with him.

They're beautiful. But sad.' Everything's sad if you make it so, I said.

You read between the wrong lines.

Sometimes When You Are Serious, People Thought You Were Joking, But Sometimes When You Are Joking, People Thought You Were Serious

Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that's all.

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

Without analysis, no synthesis.

All models are wrong, but some are useful.

To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics.

Philosophers of science have repeatedly demonstrated that more than one theoretical construction can always be placed upon a given collection of data.

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.

Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.