Quotes About Interpretation

How you feel is not the result of what is happening in your life-it is your interpretation of what is happening.

There's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.

Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.

If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.

Throughout the life cycle we consciously and unconsciously edit the events of our life, trying to give them meaning.

we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.

The past is interesting to me because it's been dumbed down or flattened out, or academically nitpicked so you can't get any life out of it, you just get data.

That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life.

We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

Myths are made for the imagination to breath life into them.

Every artist - even if they do Superman, they do Batman, and things like that - they are speaking about his life. Every person, every artist makes his life an artwork.

I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Art is life, life is art - the question is what came first?

At the very beginning, I said my life and Playboy are a Rorschach test. It's a culmination of the dreams and fantasies and prejudices you bring to the table

Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life.

I don't want to spend my life explaining myself. You either get it, or you don't.

Actually in the moment in which the idea has life, when it's listened to read, engaged with, acted on stage, it gains another dimension, it becomes three dimensional.

Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

Whether one showed you and execution or a little finger, you would extract an equally edifying thought from both of them, and would still be content. That's the way to get on in life.

An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.