Quotes About Interpretation

In the arts feeling is always meaning.

Seeing is flux," he said. I mentioned the hidden narratives in his work, and he said that for him stories were like blood running through a body - paths of life. It was a revealing metaphor, and I never forgot it.

the ironic point of view is sometimes the only legitimate way to interpret the reality we live in.

In the arts," James wrote, "feeling is always meaning.

we imagine ourselves as the other person will see us, mirroring our own desire in them, and most of what we do is borrowed from a vocabulary of familiar images.

A young person always extrapolates human reality from her own life.

Art is not about art. Art is about life.   L. B.

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.

Sometimes people say something to you and you're like, "I respect you so much, I love what you do, but I disagree. I don't think that's right for the way I see it."

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.

Some people consider the way Shakespeare was writing about Ophelia as erotomania-that she was delusional in thinking that Hamlet was in love with her. But I don't think so.

You can use martial arts to tell a different story. Ang Lee used martial arts in 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' to talk about love.

I love the conversation between film and music.

Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It's like falling in love. You can't give a reason why.

I love films-they are like paintings.

I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It's fun to see what they'll say it is

That's what I love about acting, you get to find little pieces of yourself in every character you play.

The thing about Sondheim is that it does get very cerebral. You do need a faculty with words and a love for the lyrics to not just pull it off, but to have an appreciation for it.

Whoever seems to himself to have understood the Scriptures in such a way that he does not build up that double love of God and neighbor has not yet understood.

Many people love my music. Many do not understand it. In general my music is more easily understood by younger people in Mali, and by people outside Africa.

I love humans; always seeing patterns in things that aren't there.

A mutual misunderstanding.

People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.