Quotes About Interpretation

When the good pictures come, we hope they tell truths, but truths 'told slant,' just as Emily Dickinson commanded.

A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth.

Intuition is not infallible; it only seems to be the truth. It is a message which we may interpret wrongly.

There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'

But I'm very careful with opinions because I never know what the truth is. When I read what the press says about me, I don't really believe what it says about other people.

Leaving people to jumped conclusions is sometimes simpler than explaining a complicated truth

Art is sometimes likened to a mirror... an expression of universal human truth, executed with a degree of skill.

If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what we know to be lies.

You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it.

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

I think one of the big challenges about science fiction is finding truth to relate to as an actor.

True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.

Jonah peered critically up at the Renaissance masterpiece. "Man, those copies don't due it justice. This one's the truth!" "Only a Janus," groaned Hamilton.

Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things.

The truths that seem most truthful, if you look at them from all sides, if you look at them close up, turn out to be either half truths or lies.

Fair and balanced is doublespeak for bite-out-chunks-of-truth until only irrelevancy is left, byte-sized, entertaining irrelevancy.

Never ruin a good painting with the truth.

Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without choking on truth.

It's only a story, isn't it?"... "Who's to say what's only a story and what's truth disguised as a story?

We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.

Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.

Novelisation doesn't imply the truth. Readers are sophisticated enough to know that.

The truth isn't what we say, it's how we feel when we say it.