Quotes About Interpretation

The imagination demands that life be told slant because of its need of distance.

The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history.

I put together the influences of my life in as clear a way as I possibly can, in the same way that Beethoven or Schoenberg or Bach put their influences together.

Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life.

When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.

I tend to think in dramatic terms. In life, there may be an actual drama, but it would be the fictionalized, imagined drama that engaged me.

When I watch people like Cate Blanchett act, I don't know what is going on in her life, you just get lost in her performance and that's what I hope to do as well.

I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment.

You must find a way to express your ideas and compel your audience to react through the idea itself, and then figuring out what the best representative of that idea may be, and bringing it to life.

The appreciation of the merits of art (of the emotions it conveys) depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life...

For so long I just let people surmise what they would about my life and my choices, and other people have written books and told tales.

Our experience of many life circumstances is a function of our personal perspective and not the circumstance itself.

Most of the trouble in life comes from misunderstanding, I think,' said Anne.

Buddha never rejected Hinduism, but he broadened its base. He gave it a new life and a new interpretation.

The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius.

And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end

Not getting our needs fulfilled is painful - but it's a sweet pain, not suffering, which is what comes from life-alienated thinking and interpretation.

I've realized that a lot of life is not what you say,see,it's what you don't say.People have to make up their own minds then.It's like a game, and only we know the rules.

Modernism: the books are as hard to understand as life itself.

Unlike life, when books become meaningless, they are making a point.

When you make movies based on real life, you try to exaggerate it.

One person's crazy is another person's sane, I guess.

When spiritual, metaphysical, material, or immaterial events come into my life, I can only fix them by way of painting.

Digital imaging has untied our hands with regards to technical limitations. We no longer have to be arbiters of technology we get to participate in the interpretation of technology into creative content.