Quotes About Interpretation

Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words. I don't know what she's going on about half the time!

To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.

Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence.

We see in colour all the time. Everything around us is in colour. Black and white is therefore immediately an interpretation of the world, rather than a copy.

You have to be a little patient if you're an artist. People don't always get you the first time.

A time will come when the eye of man will perceive colors as feelings within itself.

Never mind, put any book on the piano, and someone can turn from time to time, so I need not look as though I played by heart.

The truth isn't all things to all people all of the time.

Recipes are just descriptions of one person's take on one moment in time. They're not rules.

The job of art is to turn time into things.

We must ask nothing of artists but to be of their own time.

Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.

From the beginning of time, in childhood, I thought that pain meant I was not loved. It meant I loved.

Every time you start a movie is to explore with a director and if you can with the actors and with the other collaborators and try to figure out what's the best way to tell the specific story.

I find that, maybe because I'm also a singer, I hear music in characters all the time, even if they don't sing. I hear what affects me in my heart.

Most writers write haphazardly. The actor is fighting unjustified words all the time.

I would like the colors, their shapes and positions to be arrived at in response to and dictated by the condition of the total space at the time they are considered.

The history needs to serve the story, not the story the history. But at the same time you can't stray too far.

I think of myself as a kind of reporter; I report on the nature of certain events. I think of art as a report on civilization at a certain time.

I wonder why people like to believe I'm high all the time. I guess . . . maybe they think someone else can take their trip for them.

Science is the storytelling of our time.

Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.

The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would be able to adapt it to their own needs and uses.