Quotes About Interpretation

The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?

It is always a taut moment in a foreign country waiting to see if your English-speaking guide speaks English.

I resist the idea that travel writing has got to be factual.

Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality.

One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.

Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.

The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played only by the breeze, the actor should be an instrument played upon by the character he depicts.

In the eyes of a seer, every leaf of a tree is a page of the Holy Book and contains divine revelation.

Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.

If you see a tree as blue, then make it blue.

I keep hearing tree talk water words and i keep knowing what they mean.

How do you see those tree?... They are yellow. Well then put down yellow. And that shadow is rather blue. So render it with pure ultramarine. Those red leaves? Use vermillion.

If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this.

Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional.

When we describe a process, or make out an invoice, or photograph a tree, we create models; without them we would know nothing of reality and would be animals.

What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever.

I have to create an object which resembles the tree. The sign for a tree, and not the sign that other artists may have found for the tree.

I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?

It is not a question so much of a 'tree like a figure' or a 'root like a figure' - it is a question of bringing out the anonymous personality of these things.

People don't use their eyes. They never see a bird, they see a sparrow. They never see a tree, they see a birch. They see concepts.

Arbores loqui latine. The trees speak Latin.

Also pay attention if a tree or whatnot says something about two bulls.

The banyan tree does not mean awakening, nor does the hill, nor the saint, nor the European couple. The lotus is a symbol of regeneration.

I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.