Quotes About Interpretation

I asked him was he limpin' or pimpin'. He said he was pimpin'. I said that looked like a limp to me.

We can all read a book and still not understand it.

The thing with food is that you can give 20 people the same recipe and the same ingredients, and somebody's going to make it better than somebody else, and that's the creativity of it. It's like music. You could have a bunch of people playing the same piece, and somebody's gonna play it better.

Feeling tells you what you want to say. Technique gives you tools with which to say it.

It is always the writer's world that we enter in art—never the objective world.)

No matter your position, circumstances, or opportunities in life, you always have the freedom of mind to choose how you experience, interpret, and, ultimately, shape your world.

I begin with an idea, but as I work, the picture takes over. Then there is the struggle between the idea I preconceived... and the picture that fights for its own life.

I like to convey the idea that art is important in everyday life.

The pictures present an improvised view of life as normal. Life is shown as we think we see it but in fact never do. The pictures imitate life to find a way out.

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.

Photography starts with the projection of the photographer, his understanding of life and himself into the picture.

What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.

The relation between life and literature - a final antimony - is one of mutual plagiarism.

The object of art is to give life shape.

It is my feeling that a story is not finished until it is read, and that the reader finishes it through his or her life experience, prejudices, worldview and thoughts.

To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.

The very freedom and expressiveness we find missing in life we find present in art.

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

The greatest respect an artist can pay to music is to give it life.

It is not about painting life, it is about making painting alive.

This concern which interests us more than anything else: the blurring of the distinction between art and life.

The job of the poet is to render the world-to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.

The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this makes life easier and simpler.

He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.