Quotes About Interpretation

It's not what happens in life that bothers us. It's what we're believing about it that bothers us.

I have a vision of life, and I try to find equivalents for it in the form of photographs.

Never try to convey your idea to the audience - it is a thankless and senseless task. Show them life, and they'll find within themselves the means to assess and appreciate it.

In life we listen to other people. Listen with varying degrees of concentration and attention, right? Actors must learn to listen in a different way.

Reality is negotiable.

It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting.

When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.

I've always tried to insert consciousness and spirituality in my records, interpreting the writings of all cultures and religions and how they apply to life in modern times.

Our perception of songs that we've written... the meaning changes from day to day... to whatever stage we're at in our life and careers.

Life experiences become acting experiences, which in turn become life experiences.

To my mind, the actor has this great responsability of playing another human being… it's like taking on another person's life and you have to do it as sincerely and honestly as you can.

...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

All you see in your world is the outcome of your idea about it.

Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them.

A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.

Art is life's dream interpretation.

If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.

Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.

God either rules as sovereign in interpretation over *all* areas of life or none.

Art informs life in so many ways, and vice versa.

I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

We have art in order not to die of life.

When I'm photographing I see life.

You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of painting.