Quotes About Interpretation

It is true that I have known Straussians almost all my life. And the one thing I was taught about them from the earliest age is that they are wrong.

Not everything in life can or should be explained. Part of every painting should be incomplete...to be completed in the mind of the viewer.

Art springs from life but it doesn't mean we have to be tyrannized by it.

I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That's how I live my life.

A book is judged, not by its reference to life, but by its reference to other books.

Art experts are unfailingly opposed to Art for the simple reason that they are interested in Art - but Art is not interested in Art. Art is interested in life.

Nothing in life has any meaning except the meaning you give it.

Sometimes I feel like art is supposed to mirror life, but strangely it's as if art is trying to catch up to life, to a certain extent?

I've got to show life as I see it.

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.

Why is joy not considered a fit subject for an artist?

I think life is so difficult to catch, it's so furtive, that a copy, a film, can in no way catch it and represent it.

There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.

Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll.... It does not mean that everything in life is relative.

What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find ourselves therein, -- form given to what was vague, what slumbered stirred to life.

My life has been greatly influenced by many books which I have never read.

Male genitals are still called "the tree of life" by the Arabs, and a cross was one of the oldest diagrammatic images of male genitals.

The people I've encountered who are really dangerous in my life don't go around with their fangs drawn - they are dangerous because of the way they interpret what's going on.

If you do it properly, life is art, really.

Reading is the creative center of a writer's life." -

The function of the artist is to provide what life does not.

The facts of life are to the biographer what the text of a novel is to the critic.

Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.

You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it tick.... You're back with the mystery of having been moved by words. The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in.