Quotes About Interpretation

A playwright is the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about. He is a kind of psychic journalist, even when he's great.

History is written by the future, and therefore distorted at its start.

Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.

Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.

Physics most strongly insists that its methods do not penetrate behind the symbolism.

When we analyse the picture into a large number of particles of paint, we lose the aesthetic significance of the picture. The particles of paint go into the scientific inventory, and it is claimed that everything that there really was in the picture is kept. But this way of keeping a thing may be much the same as losing it. The essence of a picture (as distinct from the paint) is arrangement.

He died in 1952, and his last words were, "The Scriptures explain themselves.

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes — ah, that is where the art resides!

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.

The notes I can handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes-ah, that is where the art resides.

E agora tinha a certeza de uma coisa vislumbrada ao princípio (...) que não há dois livros iguais porque nunca houve dois leitores iguais. E que cada livro lido é, como cada ser humano, um livro singular, uma história única e um mundo à parte.

A reader is the total of all he's read, in addition to all the films and television he's seen.

Dantés: que no hay dos libros iguales porque nunca hubo dos lectores iguales. Y que cada libro leído es, como cada ser humano, un libro singular, una historia única y un mundo aparte.

Un lector es lo que antes ha leído, más el cine y la televisión que ha visto. A la información que le proporcione el autor, siempre añadirá la suya propia. Y ahí está el peligro: el exceso de referencias puede haberle fabricado a usted un adversario equivocado, o irreal.

hay un ejercicio fascinante, a medio camino entre la literatura y la vida: visitar lugares leídos en libros y proyectar en ellos, enriqueciéndolos con esa memoria lectora, las historias reales o imaginadas, los personajes auténticos o de ficción que en otro tiempo los poblaron. Ciudades, hoteles, paisajes, adquieren un carácter singular cuando alguien se acerca a ellos con lecturas previas en la cabeza.

Ante un texto, cada uno aplica su propia perversidad

Un cuadro es la suma de sus destrucciones. Es algo vivo, ¿comprende?... Se va transformando, muere y vive mientras nace, hasta que el artista dice basta. Sólo entonces termina. Y muere de verdad.

originalmente, bárbaro no significa salvaje, sino extranjero)

Es su manera de hablar. Callándose.

Because God and the devil could be one and the same thing, and everybody understood it in his own way.

You can make a text mean anything, especially if it's old and full of ambiguities.

Lo que dices es hábil pero es un juego de palabras. ?¿Conoces tú algo que no sea un juego de palabras?

Annotation 50: What is to be understood by primordial wisdom and discriminative wisdom is explained slightly differently in the Rangtong and Shäntong systems.

According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless.