Quotes About Interpretation

Words have very potent meanings and people read them and they react to them personally. They are very suggestive in terms of your life and things like that.

There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is the most important of all to reach the heart of the reader.

It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my books in terms of my life.

I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.

An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever; I could not sing an air to save my life; but I have the intensest delight in music, and can detect good from bad.

The point,' Ms. Conyers continued, "is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life.

Art is more than a product of your efforts - it should be about feeling, life, attitude, soul.

What you see determines how you interpret the world, which in turn influences what you expect of the world and how you expect the story of your life to unfold.

Would it not be better to have it understood that realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art -- although it may possibly be very good journalism?

The poem is not a physical body. It's a textual body that has life only insofar as it can act symbolically. It cannot physically act.

Here's one more from my limited experience with all 3 fields: A writer creates life; a poet creates magic from life; a philosopher tries to understand life.

In a huge way, everything that I've done in my life has helped inform my ability to communicate with actors and direct them.

You put his brain in a bird, the bird would fly backwards" -Secret Life of the Bees

Dissecting a book was the same as making sense of life. You have to find a way to interpret life, or you'll go nuts.

Every photo is almost a fiction or a dream. If it's really good, it's another form of life.

The reason the Constitution gives judges life tenure is so they can be independent of political pressures and follow the law.

It happened the way I come up with any story, which is that I took elements of my own life and put them into the story, but in a very mixed-up way.

I think the word "intelligent" dictates a lot about someone's sense of humor, and the terms of reference in your life, the way you interpret something you read or a painting you look at or something.

A movie takes on its own life, and you have to respect that and be open to it.

It's not the events that shape my life that determine how I feel and act, but, rather, it's the way I interpret and evaluate my life experiences.

...throughout the history of art it has been art itself - in all its forms - that has inspired art...today's photographs are so geared to life that one can learn more from them than from life itself.

The subject matter... is not that collection of solid, static objects extended in space but the life that is lived in the scene that it composes.

When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.

Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play. It seems like spelling out mysterious, musical details can destroy a play by making the motivations too clear, too simplex.