Quotes About Interpretation

To give truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation.

Truth has many dimensions, and the way you arrive at truth in complex situations is through many perspectives.

What is truth today may be a damn lie next week.

The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

...[E]very person perceives the world differently. So essentially, there are six billion human versions of reality on this planet, each perceiving its own truth.

What is truth in photography? It can be told in a hundred different ways. Every thirtieth of a second when the shutter snaps, its capturing a different piece of information.

What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.

Unfortunately, many regard the critic as an enemy, instead of seeing him as a guide to the truth.

The truth is that no matter how many retakes you do, each will be different and that is the nature of any creative medium. There's no such thing as perfection.

An artist's job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.

The truth is that works of art test the spectator much more than the spectator tests them.

The scripture worshippers put the writings ahead of God. Instead of interpreting God's actions in nature, for example, they interpret nature in the light of the Scripture. Nature says the rock is billions of years old, but the book says different, so even though men wrote the book, and God made the rock and God gave us minds that have found ways to tell how old it is, we still choose to believe the Scripture.

Art opens the fishiest eye . . .

You might want to consider the whole thing from a man's perspective. One's own point of view, Rosemary, is inevitably limited.

You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.

I draw because words are too unpredictable. I draw because words are too limited. If you speak and write in English, or Spanish, or Chinese, or any other language, then only a certain percentage of human beings will get your meaning. But when you draw a picture everybody can understand it. If I draw a cartoon of a flower, then every man, woman, and child in the world can look at it and say, "That's a flower.

You know when people say fine, it generally means 'leave me the hell alone because I don't want to talk about what's really bothering me.' (Susan)

One man's "ugly" is another man's "beautiful.

When you tell a man how you feel, most of the time he doesn't understand what you're talking about. You'll probably just confuse and frustrate him.

Ethnography of course means many things. Minimally, however, it has always meant the attempt to understand another life world using the self - as much of it as possible - as the instrument of knowing.

Millie was never possessive, never effusive, and never demonstrative. Her even-tempered approach to her marriage should have been enough to convince everyone that she admired, but did not love, her husband. Yet for years now, his sisters had suspected something else. Perhaps unrequited love was like a specter in the house, a presence that brushed at the edge of senses, a heat in the dark, a shadow under the sun.

He was silent. She hoped she'd injured his feelings—assuming he had feelings to injure in the first place.

He liked seeing the world through her eyes. The night, to him, was rather ordinary, overlaid with London's crowded odors and a damp that promised a deeply unlovely fog in the near future. But she preferred to consider the commonest patch of grass and the most unremarkable clump of trees worthy of a Constable canvas - in which case this night could very well have graced the ceiling of a great cathedral.

The accompanying note from her younger sister, on the other hand, said next to nothing. Lord Ingram stared at it. How should he interpret this apparent coolness on Holmes's part? She'd long been open in her desire to take him as her lover.Now that it had happened, were two forays to his bed enough? Were his days of being propositioned by Holmes over? And what would he do if that was the case?