Quotes About Interpretation

I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.

No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstood others.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Who wants to understand the poemMust go to the land of poetry;Who wishes to understand the poetMust go to the poet's land.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

One is never satisfied with a portrait of a person that one knows.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

We really only learn from books we cannot judge. The author of a book we could really judge ought surely to be learning from us.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them

A person hears only what they understand.

Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.

When scholars study a thing, they strive To kill it first, if its alive; Then they have the parts and they've lost the whole For the link that's missing was the living soul.

For many people, one of the most frustrating aspects of life is not being able to understand other people's behavior.

We would not say very much in company if we realized how often we misunderstand what others say.

Närrisch, dass jeder in seinem Falle Seine besondere Meinung preist! Wenn Islam Gott ergeben heißt, Im Islam leben und sterben wir alle!

The Beginning and end of all literary activity is the reproduction of the world that surrounds me by means of the world that is in me, all things being grasped, related, recreated, molded, and reconstructed in a personal form and original manner.

I am contented, happy, and consequently a bad historian.

Wagner: Ich hab es öfters rühmen hören, Ein Komödiant könnt einen Pfarrer lehren. Faust: Ja, wenn der Pfarrer ein Komödiant ist; Wie das denn wohl zuzeiten kommen mag.

As usual, I shall tell my story badly; and you, as usual, will think me extravagant.

Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language.

Life is like art - it is all about interpretation.

There is a difference between art and life and that difference is readability.

Maybe because Im a nice and sweet person in life, I like the darker roles. The really dark one is Lady Macbeth.