Quotes About Interpretation

Vi que las frases salían de su boca como pompas de las que las palabras eran sólo el revestimiento externo que, al deshacerse en sonido, dejaban al descubierto un volumen etéreo: el significado.

Plainly, she is not coming back. I can tell by the pattern of the cracks in the plaster. There's a code there, a message. Like the secret message in the final bars of Shostakovich's fifteenth and last symphony. Faint cryptic signals, like the clicking of a telegraph key, against the remote and sustained monotone of the violins—a song from outer space. What was he trying to tell us?

I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. —Pablo Picasso

Whenever you "see" an issue or "understand" a concept, be conscious of the lens through which you're viewing the subject. You should assume you're introducing bias. The challenge remains to identify and let go of that bias or the assumptions you bring, and actively work to see and understand the subject anew.

Anyhow, with their extraordinary gift for, and experience in, affairs of the heart from the double point of view, both of the man and of the woman it is not difficult to see that these people have a special work to do as reconcilers and interpreters of the two sexes to each other.

One should therefore not rely on mere words, but everywhere search for the intention behind them. (121)

Bosch is great because what he imagines in color can be translated into justice.

Every picture tells a story.

"Shine, Shine, save poor me!I'll give you all the pussy a Shine can see."Shine says, "Now pussy's good, but pussy don't last—Shine's going to save his own black ass."And Shine swam on.

After you've heard two eyewitness accounts of an auto accident, you begin to worry about history.

A picture, it is said, is worth a thousand words, but cannot a few well-spoken words convey as many pictures?

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said.

And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

When I glimpse the backs of women's knees I seem to hear the first movement of Beethoven's "Pastoral Symphony."

A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read.

We [God] have sent no messenger save with the tongue of his people, that he might make clear to them.

People who look through keyholes are apt to get the idea that most things are keyhole shaped.

Our blunders mostly come from letting our wishes interpret our duties.

The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.And the seven thin and ill-favored kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine.

Not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is NOT saying.

If the slayer thinks he slays,If the slain thinks he is slain,Both these do not understand:He slays not, is not slain.

Man is the only critter who feels the need to label things as flowers or weeds.