Quotes About Interpretation

It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.

Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.

I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.

Whether art is defined as a representation of or response to reality, it demands an intense engagement with things we haven't managed to understand fully.

Abstraction and representation are supposed to be going down two very different paths, one sociological and the other aesthetic.

I think, for an artist, when you're drawing somebody who actually exists, it's a much steeper critical curve, as there is an actual representation of that person out there. You can't just interpret it any way you want.

What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.

I feel character description from a book can mislead you and actually make you fall off course when you're representing a character using a script.

As an actress, you're part of what the director is creating, and as a model, you're representing a designer's vision.

With novels, you're representing things. You're not explaining.

I am not interested in representing reality. Actually, I am interested in representing reality, but that doesn't mean a naturalistic approach, which I think is kind of impossible.

While representing violence on screen, some directors tend to gloss over it while others glamorize it.

An album represents an artist or a band or a group of musicians at any given moment in time. You just produce the music that you feel good about and hope that the audience shows some interest in it.

I don't make films to reproduce reality.

We always found that many people are robots without knowing it. The interpreters of classical music, Horowitz for example, they are like robots, making a reproduction of the music which is always the same. It's automatic, and they do it as if it were natural, which is not true.

I think I'm becoming a psychologist in explaining the Republican Party. It's the only way you can explain 'em. It's psychological.

As I've said repeatedly, Republicans are very good at describing things in black and white; Democrats are very good at describing the 11 shades of gray.

There are some in black robes sitting on federal benches all across this country. They're Democrats, Republicans, liberals, and even conservatives that pervert the Constitution.

I don't understand the word 'hunk.'

I go on a hunt for things that make sense to me and that I can actively play as an actress.

I'm a biographer; I can live with a little hyperbole.

Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.

Beauty for me is the attitude behind something. But my ideals of beauty are rather different.

Ideas are only as good as your ability to communicate them.