Quotes About Interpretation

For me, the costume is very important. More the feel of it than the look of it. I take it more from the inside. So if I wear something that's heavy, it will affect my character. Is it very tight, and do I feel almost imprisoned, or is it very comfortable? It's the feeling of the costume that tells me where to go with the character.

The old adage that a picture is worth a thousand words is very true for creative thinking.

Never judge a philosophy by its abuse

He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.

To defend his position he piles up text upon text, waves his sword like a blind-folded gladiator, rattles his noisy tongue, and ends with wounding no one but himself.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.

Most simply, a metaphor is seeing one thing as something else, pretending "this" is "that" because we do not know how to think or talk about "this," so we use "that" as a way of saying something about it. Thinking metaphorically means spotting a thread of similarity between two dissimilar objects, events, or whatever, one of which is better known than the other, and using the better-known one as a way of speaking about the lesser known.

By viewing images we cast onto outer reality as mirror reflections of inner reality, we come to know ourselves.

Maureen says, "It amazed me to realize that the women's tendency to focus on their work rather than effectively communicating what they were doing got interpreted as a lack of commitment. This seemed counterintuitive, because you'd think hard work would demonstrate loyalty.

The point is, you had no way of knowing. But you decided it had to be about you.

Part of the artist's job is to make the commonplace singular, to project a different interpretation onto the conventional.

Even now, after a lifetime of human companionship, I am hard-pressed to understand fully mankind's fascination with those little marks that they so carefully impress on sheets of paper.

People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.

If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.

Dalí is one marvellous painter, but in living times he's one marvellous clown —more interesting for everybody.

profesori nisu mogli da se odlu?e da me smatraju'umetnikom'. –On je veoma ozbiljan-govorili su- veoma vešt i uspeva u onome što naumi. Ali, hladan je kao led, u njegovim delima nema emocije, jer on nije li?nost. On je racionalan i, bez sumnje, intelektualac. Za umetnost treba imati srce!

What is surrealism?// A spontaneous method of irrational knowledge based on the critical and systematic objectivity of the associations and interpretations of delirious phenomena.

It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

The arts which need interpretation are the arts of time -- music and poetry -- and not the arts of space -- sculpture and painting.

Literature is an art, and the essence of all art is mood.

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.

The reader is the final arbiter.

It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one.