Quotes About Interpretation

Learning to read faces should be compulsory in schools so you can decipher what people are really thinking.

The experienced physician, mechanic, or physiologist looking at a wound, an engine, a microscopic preparation, "sees" things the novice does not see. If both, experts and laymen, were asked to make exact copies of what they see, their drawings would be quite different.

But art not only exploits the variety of appearances, it also affirms the validity of individual outlook and thereby admits a further dimension of variety. Since the shapes of art do not primarily bear witness to the objective nature of the things for which they stand, they can reflect individual interpretation and invention.

A cloud can look like a camel, but a camel is unlikely to look like a cloud. This is so because the signifier must be able to stand for the whole category of the signified. The cloud looks like all camels, but no camel looks like all clouds.

A good documentary or educational film is not raw experience. The material has passed the mill of reason, it has been sifted and interpreted.

Every great artist gives birth to a new universe, in which the familiar things look the way they have never before looked to anyone.

The mere exposure to masterworks does not suffice. Too many persons visit museums and collect picture books without ever gaining access to art. The inborn capacity to understand through the eyes has been put to sleep and must be reawakened. This is best accomplished by handling pencils, brushes, chisels and perhaps cameras.

There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays,And every single one of them is right.

It's clever, but is it Art?

It is not illegal for an adult male to 'thigh' or enjoy a young girl who is still in the age of weaning; meaning to place his penis between her thighs, and to kiss her.

Beauty is not defined by the masses but by the opinion of the individual.

I'm not a great poetry fan.

First, some physicists insist that quantum mechanics cannot be formulated without taking into account the minds of observers. They argue that minds cannot be reduced to physics because physics presupposes the minds of physicists

We got plenty of laughs, but not always for the right reasons.

Carter Please tell me you speak English. I'm Detective Carter. Do you speaka any English Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth

The way liberals are interpreting the First Amendment today is that it prevents anyone who is religious from being in government.

What appears to be black on white to whites may appear to be all white to black.

One minute he was moving securely through time and space, in perfect coordination with other people; then, with no warning, he was out of step, was somehow removed from everyone else's sense of time and place, so that the slightest movement, word, facial expression or gesture contained enormous significance. The room filled with coded messages that he could not decode, and he slipped quickly into barely controlled hysteria.

Remember, words are the enemy of poetry.

If you're going to use 'theatrical' and 'bent' in such close proximity, you're going to give people the wrong impression.

A story is what remains when you leave out most of the action.

After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?

A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.

That's what it feels like when I write, like I have this beautiful world in my head, but when I try to remember it in order to write it down, I change it, and I can't ever get it back.