Quotes About Interpretation

The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.

Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of truth emerges from it, but it's not fact.

There are always three sides to every memory…yours, theirs, and the truth, which lies somewhere in between the two

Every opinion which embodies somewhat of the portion of truth which the common opinion omits, ought to be considered precious, with whatever amount of error and confusion that truth may be blended.

The truth of a theory is in your mind, not in your eyes.

Being misunderstood is not a bad thing as an actor. I know the truth.

In communist Russia, their major organ was Pravda, which means "truth." The Russians knew how to read between the lines. They didn't take their literature literally.

The way we see the world is not actually the world in itself. What we see is our idea of it. The truth is, we have no notion of what the world is other than through the veils of our perception.

In highly charged political matters, one person's ambiguity may be another person's truth.

The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.

The truth is rarely true and never simple.

A portrait isn't a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth.

Thus I, gone forth, as spiders do, In spider's web a truth discerning, Attach one silken strand to you For my returning.

I never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing.

Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling.

There is but one poetry,--true poetry.

The truth is a fog, in which one man sees the heavenly host and the other one sees a flying elephant.

One thing we can probably agree on is that the truth, however we define it, is often hard to tell. It can be hard to tell the facts of the story, and it can be hard to tell its emotional truth too.

The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.

If the truth is told, things are just as bad as you yourself care to make them.

As I keep saying, fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was.

The reason we constantly discover new truth in Shakespeare is that his complete understanding of the particular includes the universal.

I love the way dates in a text make us think that truth will follow.

It might sound glib, but in a sense, as an actor Im a journalist and a psychologist recording life and truth.