Quotes About Interpretation

The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.

It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

Everybody talks and everybody listens, and somehow the truth just always comes up missin.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

I encounter one example after another of how relative truth is.

There are three points of view to everything - mine, yours, and the truth.

There are three sides to every story. Mine, yours and the truth.

Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

As no two people see the world the same way, all trips from here to there are imaginary; all truth is a tale I am telling myself.

If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.

I think that what you've got to do is discover the essential truth of the situation, and have a point of view about it.

The truth of anything at all doesn't lie in someone's account of it. It lies in all the small facts of the time. An advertisement in a paper, the sale of a house, the price of a ring.

The bookis a distant relative of the truth, and the film is a distant relative of the book.

All nature is a vast symbolism: Every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth.

My intent is to tell the truth as I know it, realizing that what is true for me may be blasphemy for others.

We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs.

The time is not come for impartial history. If the truth were told just now, it would not be credited.

It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.

Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.

There are three sides to every story: my side, your side, and the truth. And no one is lying. Memories shared serve each one differently.

The greatest piece of acting or music or sculpture or what-have-you always has its roots in the truth of human emotion.

"True" resembles... a compliment paid to sentences that seem to be paying their way and that fit in with other sentences which are doing so.