Quotes About Interpretation

Trump's one liberal policy seems to be his desire to pump more funding into mental health - which I've taken the liberty of interpreting as a massive cry for help.

I think what people call genre is just a question of orchestration. So, for instance, with Punch Brothers, you look at that band and say that's a bluegrass band, when really it's an orchestration choice.

Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it.

As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.

Most books aren't pure nonfiction or fiction.

As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.

For me, music is pure abstraction.

I dread naming pieces of music because being instrumental, most of the time the songs that I write are instrumental, I want the listener to make up their own story as to what it is and get the emotion pure without using logic.

When you're singing somebody else's songs, it's just pure joy to me.

Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal.

I have made decisions based from purely an actor's point of view.

For me, I've never drawn a distinction between live-action acting and performance-capture acting. It is purely a technology.

I don't approach films purely in context of genre.

For me, purity of movement wasn't enough. I needed expression, more intensity, more mind.

Art can be political, but when it becomes politicized, the purity is ruined.

I don't think geometric art is... I don't like to call it that. I don't think it's any more pure than pop art or anything else. It doesn't have anything to do with purity.

However, those who have used those words use half the sentence to fit their purpose, which, of course, I believe is to discredit me and the new Nation of Islam that has come up around me.

If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.

It's the role of the artist to pursue content.

The way to take the arts seriously is not to defend this or that art form for its own sake. Pursuing arts activities with humane and democratic principles in mind is where the benefit lies.

Photography is a pursuit that allows you to be very hands-on with what you show people of either yourself or the art you want to make, and acting is kind of the exact opposite. You do have a modicum of creative freedom as an actor, but you're still very much a cipher for other people's art.

A masterpiece doesn't push you around. It lets you make up your own mind about what it means - and change it as often as you like.

Established actors will challenge you if they don't agree with the way you are taking it, and you have to argue it. But with a younger cast, they are more likely to wonder whether what they are doing is okay instead of trying to second guess the director. That helps push you.