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Quotes About Interpretation

One writes what one lives, even if not in a literal way. Someone who has gone through an unhappy love tends to describe unhappy loves, even if they have nothing to do with their own.
~ Dacia Maraini
I love art. It is uplifting.
~ Damien Hirst
Yes, well, let me tell you that if nobody had ever learned to quote, very few people would be in love with La Rochefoucauld. I bet you I don't know ten souls who read him without a middleman.
~ Dorothy Parker
... does it seem to you that it is possible to speak of Art? It would be the same as explaining love!
~ Eleanora Duse
Something may have been lost in translation, but it certainly wasn't love
~ Erich Segal
The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I love taking things out of context and playing with them and chopping up rules.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.
~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
I read an interview with Mark Wahlberg, and he was like, 'I might read a script and love it, but it's all about the filmmaker.' I think that's a good lesson for me.
~ Shiloh Fernandez
Why I love acting is that it's totally subjective and I like that. I like that.
~ Annette Bening
When you want someone to tell you something—don't ask, tell it wrong.
~ Maureen Johnson
The surefire way to get someone to tell you something you want to know isn't to ask them about it. What you do is start telling the story yourself, say what you think happened, and say it wrong. People may not want to discuss things, but they will correct you, every time.
~ Maureen Johnson
It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything.
~ Maurice Sendak
An illustration is an enlargement, and interpretation of the text, so that the reader will comprehend the words better. As an artist, you are always serving the words. You must never illustrate exactly what is written. You must find a space in the text so that the pictures can do the work. Then you must let the words take over where words do it best. It's a funny kind of juggling act.
~ Maurice Sendak
There's so much more to book than just reading
~ Maurice Sendak
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~ Mavis Gallant
said, "Kinesics is as much an
~ Max Allan Collins
cite the following books: The Supreme Court Explained by Ellen Greenberg, Norton Publishing, 1997; The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Supreme Court by Lita Epstein, Alpha, 2004; and Images of America: Arlington National Cemetery by George W. Dodge, Arcadia Publishing, 2006.
~ Max Allan Collins
irony irritated him. There was no place for irony in marketing: it made people want to look for deeper meaning. There was no place in marketing for that, either.
~ Max Barry
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~ Max Barry
One is taught to refrain from irony, because mankind does tend to take it literally.
~ Max Beerbohm
In the hearing of the gods, who hear all, it is conversely unsafe to make a simple and direct statement.
~ Max Beerbohm
People only see the present through the lenses of their personal pasts.
~ Max Brooks
Moo," she answered, which could only be taken for "Why not?
~ Max Brooks