Quotes About Interpretation

Let me ask you something, what is not art?

Statistics can be made to prove anything - even the truth.

Reading music is the skill, while interpretation is the gift.

Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this subject move me to feel, think and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own personal statement of what I feel and want to convey - from the subject before me?

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.

To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

There are two people in every photograph: the photographer and the viewer

The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

I have said too much, it is my way. I forget, you English, you like to come at things slowly, little by little, to leave much unsaid.

I don't care about sympathy. I care about playing a character who's understandable and clear.

O que eu gostava de poder encher os livros de silêncio, e tender cada vez mais para o silêncio, e que as palavras estivessem carregadas de silêncio de maneira a que o leitor as pudesse encher como quisesse.

Coitados, pensavam que eu gostaria de ler histórias de pessoas sem contrastes, em que os bons são sempre bons e os maus sempre maus, e a bondade e a maldade se acham divididas por uma muralha da China bem definida, e ainda bem, para sabermos de que lado convém estar.

Whenever anyone declares having read a book of mine I am disappointed by the error. That's because my books are not to be read in the sense usually called reading: the only way it seems to me to approach the novels that I write is to catch them in the same manner that one catches an illness.

O que eu gostava de poder encher os livros de silêncio, e tender cada vez mais de silêncio, e que as palavras estivessem carregadas de silêncio de maneira a que o leitor as pudesse encher como quisesse.