Quotes About Interpretation

The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge.

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means.

Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.

Life is not black and white when it comes to perception.

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

Life can show up no other way than that way in which you perceive it.

Every human being should know two languages: the language of society and the language of signs. One serves to communicate with other people, the other serves to understand God's messages.

There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life.

When you peered into the windows of someone else's life, you could only guess what was going on.

It does not matter how the facts occur in life. It matters how they are told.

What is art but the denial of life?

Stories are a different kind of true.

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.

Everything in life is a metaphor.

I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.

Turn things around sometimes and look at life from a different perspective.

Imbuing fiction with a life that extends beyond the last word is in some ways the goal: the ending that goes beyond the ending in the reader's mind, so invested are they in the story.

Maybe with your emotions and your feelings, someone else can say it in a different way than you would, which brings new life to the way you might sing it.

I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.

You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not.

What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look.

I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means.