Quotes About Interpretation

Life has its enigmatic events, that can make it a mystery, or my misery. It all depends on how I view it.

What we call consciousness is our ability to perceive stimuli and to file it within the parameters of our personal story.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, how much for a poem?

I think acting is revealing to people what it means to be human.

I have been using art as a means to the emotions of life and reading into it the ideas of life.

Keep your mind open. The meaning of things lies in how people perceive them. The same thing could mean different meanings to the same people at different times.

What life means has individual answers for each of us.

Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.

The function off the historian is neither to love the past nor to emancipate himself from the past, but to master and understand it as the key to the understanding of the present.

What's really good about the word 'art' is that 'art' is a word like 'love,' or 'god,' or whatever. It transcends so many things.

The secret of art is love.

Her very frowns are fairer far Than smiles of other maidens are.

There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.

The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.

To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.

Do we mean love, when we say love?

Human speech conceals far more than it confides; it blurs much more than it defines; it distances more than it connects," was George Steiner's conclusion.

To reread a book is to read a different book. The reader is different. The meaning is different.

So who is cruel? You, cruel reader, you are.

A thrilling story can be dull if told badly, but even the most mundane event can be elevated into a tale of epic scale by a good storyteller.

As thoroughly as mankind has killed God, the reader has despatched the author.

Who can say they saw a whole play or read a whole book? Each has their own experience, their own play, their own book