Quotes About Interpretation

The function of the artist is to organize the facets of life according to his imagination.

If we understood the enigmas of life there would be no need for art.

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

…the book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.

Life itself is not the reality. We are the ones who put life into stones and pebbles.

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.

The story of your life is not your life; it's your story.

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Life takes on the meaning that you give it.

Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.

I believe it is impossible to make sense of life in this world except through art.

Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.

Dreams - Language in a dream is unspoken but understood. Words get in the way.

Everything I think in life is about context and intention.

Sometimes there's beauty in the harsh words - it's all about how you read them.

Sometimes there's beauty in the tough words- it's all in how you read them.

you're my interpreter in this world.

sometimes there's beauty in the tough words—it's all in how you read them.

You're almost never willing to agree with me; that's not what I mean. I mean the latter. You're the one who claims religion is nonsense." "I used to say the same about magic, too, and look where it got me.

You don't see things as they are. You see things as you are. -- Talmud

The point about positive thinking, and later cognitive behavioural therapy, was that you could choose how you thought about life, and that how you thought about it changed not only your interpretation of what happened, but also the actual course of events.

What image of beauty we hold exists so brilliantly, so beautifully in our minds, and the sad task then is to somehow transcribe this image so that it becomes viewable to others.

Can you give to someone else what has been? That's the task of the poet.

To understand what a person means or says, it's basically necessary to already know what that person means or is saying.