Quotes About Interpretation

Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?

The most beautiful colors, laid on confusedly, will not give as much pleasure as the chalk outline of a portrait.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Natural language processing (NLP) research aims to enable computers to interpret and react to human languages.

Disseram que eu fora insensível; que manifestara um sentimento muito próximo da indiferença e do desdém. Ah!, como as pessoas não entendem nada das pessoas.

One study had four doctors interpret fifty different tracings (the printouts generated by the monitor). The four concurred only 22 percent of the time.

Ein Rezensent kommt mir manchmal vor wie der Mann, der eine Wolke beobachtet und ihr übelnimmt, daß sie nicht die Gestalt des Kamels angenommen hat, das er jeden Tag im Spiegel sieht.

evil< is also just another word for >toilet<

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

But the exponents of the theory "art for art's sake" maintain that any reference to actualities beyond the work of art must irretrievably destroy its aesthetic illusion. That may be correct, and yet this aesthetic illusion is not all, to produce it is not the exclusive or the most important aim of the artistic endeavor.

If we do not know or even want to know the aims that the artist was pursuing through his work – his aim to inform, to convince, to influence people – then we do not get much farther in understanding his art than the ignorant spectator who judges a football game simply by the beauty of the players' movement.

In interpreting a work of art, we draw upon our own aims and endeavors, inform it with a meaning that has its origin in our own ways of life and thought. In a word, any art that really affects us becomes to that extent modern art.

The most inexplicable paradox of the work of art is that it seems to exist for itself and yet not for itself; that it addresses itself to a concrete, historically and sociologically conditioned public, but seems, at the same time, to want to have no knowledge at all of a public.

Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own if it doesn't, the thing collapses.

If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played.

We are part of the world creation, and we ourselves create nothing. Our knowledge allows us to make use of all the forces already in existence, our art to interpret emotions already felt. One big war, an epidemic, and we collapse into ignorance and darkness, fit sons of chimpanzees.

I do not paint in front of but from within nature.

With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.

That's because you Westerners see art as being created from nothing. In the East, we believe the art already exists, and our job is simply to reveal it. It is not visible because we add something, but because we take away the parts that are not the art.

In his 1964 book, Understanding Media, Marshall McLuhan famously said that "the medium is the message.

As for everything else, so for mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.

When I was taught Shakespeare in school, it was such an alien, sanitized puzzle, it made no sense.