Quotes About Interpretation

I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.

The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.

We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.

And torture one poor word ten thousand ways.

Inez and I had been in the same book club for a while. She once told me that literary theory was reading without imagination, and I've loved her ever since.

The camera would miss it all. A magnificent picture is never worth a thousand perfect words. Ansel Adams can be a great artist, but he can never be Shakespeare. His tools are too literal.

When the series outlived original material, she created new stories, but used some character or incident in the canon as her jump-off point. So successful was she at capturing the color of the written word that she drew warm praise from Conan Doyle's widow and son. Denis Conan Doyle, watching from the sponsor's booth as Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce became his father's characters in a 1941 radio play, pronounced it "admirable, absolutely admirable.

Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life.

Life is about the gray areas. Things are seldom black and white, even when we wish they were and think they should be, and I like exploring this nuanced terrain.

Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it.

People have a natural tendency to read emotions out of faces, so when you see a face that is hyperreal but without the life behind the eyes, it's really off-putting and intriguing.

Never create anything, it will be misinterpreted, it will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life.

Life may be seen through many windows, none of them necessarily clear or opaque, less or more distorting than any of the others.

People seem generally happy to see their favorite world come to life, even if it it slightly changed to fit storytelling for television.

Life sends us messages all the time - then sits around laughing over how we're not gonna be able to figure them out.

To the poet as a basement quilt, but perhaps To some reader a latticework of regrets.

I get so confused about life photography art.

Life doesn't imitate art...it is art!

To know music is to transfer it to life.

The reality comes first, and the symbol comes after. I see these things, and suddenly they become symbolic of life.

We cannot all see the dreams in the same way.

Art cannot be bought or sold. It can only be created or destroyed.

Mere exactitude, of which photography and moulage [life casting] are the lowest forms, does not inspire feelings.

You can't just read the Koran to understand Muslim life. You have to look at history, at personalities, at economics, and so on.