Quotes About Interpretation

Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective—even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth.

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

The violinist must possess the poets gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.

I never let the facts get in the way of the truth!

When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject, nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling.

the truth is often a mixed message

What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.

There is no one truth. There's only what happened, based on how you perceive it.

Don't let the facts interfere with the truth.

Truth I have no trouble with, it's the facts I get all screwed up.

Your mind and a computer have one thing in common: neither of them know the difference between the truth... and what you tell it.

I can't work completely out of my imagination-I must put my foot in a bit of truth-and then I can fly free.

A true proposition is a proposition belief which would never lead to such disappointment so long as the proposition is not understood otherwise than it was intended.

The sense of truth no matter how subjective is necessary for the experience of beauty.

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.

There is no truth. Only points of view.

Artists are the gatekeepers of truth.

I like to point out that people very often confuse the idea that truth is subjective with the fact that truth is perishable.

Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but nevertheless sense a power that grows in proportion to your resistance.

The end (goal) of art is to figure the hidden meaning of things and not their appearance; for in this profound truth lies their true reality, which does not appear in their external outlines.

If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.

There are no philosophical problems, there is only a suite of interconnected linguistic cul de sacs created by language's inability to reflect the truth.