Quotes About Interpretation

Objects do not have meaning. But if an object is thoughtful we project meaning onto it in daily life.

Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.

Perspective is the most important thing to have in life.

Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring to watch on its own.

What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.

Art is not some fun add-on to life.

Very often, people confuse simple with simplistic. The nuance is lost on most.

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.

A picture is a poem without words

In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.

My whole life long I have done nothing but interpret my dreams of ultimate masculinity, and draw them.

Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.

Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols.... we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who rule the symbols, rule us.

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

The innocent is the person who explains nothing

I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.

A photograph is analogous to a plaster cast taken from life, which is always inferior to a good statue.

Text is just ink on a page until a reader comes along and gives it life.

'Darkness' is a subjective word; it depends what your viewpoint is and how you live life.

The painting has a life of its own