Quotes About Interpretation

It is the life in literature that acts upon life.

I take in a lot of stuff from real life, movies, television, news and it all gets mixed in my head and somehow turns into a story idea.

Art is really predicated upon the experiences that you've had in your life. You only have to share what you've consumed.

It's up to the reader to decipher the code, or the words, based on everything they know about life and emotions.

People in life quote as they please, so we have the right to quote as we please. Therefore I show people quoting, merely making sure that they quote what pleases me

I certainly did my best to bring the story [Anthem] to life in another medium.

The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life.

What do you do in a novel? You take recognizable characters from your own life, and you fantasize about what they're really like.

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.

You know, artists don't really have all that much experience of life. We make a huge amount out of the small experience that we do have.

The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings.

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty to interpret it his problem and to express it his dedication.

The conductor must breathe life into the score. It is you and you alone who must expose it to the understanding, reveal the hidden jewel to the sun at the most flattering angles.

...maybe that's art. Seeing beauty others miss and capturing it.

I wondered why I hadn't realized before that art was hard because you had to recreate not merely the scene but the way it soared into your soul and changed you.

Art is life.

How historians explain time is one thing, but how we live time is quite another.

Fascinated by the great symbols of the collective history, I use them as an alphabet to communicate.

You didn't understand the poem, but that was because it wasn't for you. It was for me to understand the pain you put me through.

How can you understand the language of music, if you will not be an instrument?"—Zarost

The purpose of music as an art form, is to engage the audience.

What people say about others' behavior or character is not always true, Just Proffer it to your best judgement.

Life is art and art is life.

There is no truth.There is only perceptionand perception is reality!