Quotes About Interpretation

Life has no meaning but what we give it. I wish a few more of ye would give it a little.

the arts are life accelerated and concentrated.

I draw from life - but I always pulp my acquaintance before serving them up. You would never recognize a pig in a sausage.

The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.

OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes.

Everything in life is relative.

What makes daily life interesting is that we try to transform it to something that is close to art.

A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be, than he could find in life itself.

For me a film is at its best when you can start filling in the story with your own life experience.

For me, the canvas is an abstract interpretation of a wall. It's a piece of art with its own history, one that alludes to the passage of time and to the theater of life.

I don't like the discussions about whether photography is an art. Even though I think that if it would be just a craft I would not have stayed with it all my life.

Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't.

Every sign by itself seems dead. What gives it life?--In use it is alive. Is life breathed into it there?--Or is the use its life?

Here the term 'language-game' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, of a form of life.

We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of references, but we cannot fill in the gap.

In daily life language is important, if not in itself, then as a symptom.

That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.

There are certain ways of being that people don't find acceptable or very pleasant in regular life, but you go out on stage and do pretty much the same thing and they find it spellbinding.

It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.

It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

The refs are so confused themselves because there's so many rules. It's like, 'Oh my gosh I've never seen this many rules in my life.' And everybody's trying to govern this and justify that.

My still-life painting has more to do with light and shadow than with the objects themselves.

I like to watch the way a model moves in my clothes, the way she gives them life, or if they are wrong, stillborn, the way her life rejects them.

Art thrives on a difference of opinion. My treasure is your junk, sort of thing. Life would be dull if we all agreed.