Quotes About Interpretation

There is no one religion, no one truth and no myth lacks meaning

He didn't know what books meant to her, that books were symbols of truth and meaning.

The writer writes about what happened in order to make it make sense, to put it in perspective, to turn it into art; and art becomes the vehicle on which we ride out the truth of our experiences.

I can't bring you absolute truth in the detailed factual sense. All I can do is bring you an interpretation as I understand it. That's all you can ever get from an actor.

The truth isn't just the facts. You can have all the facts imaginable and miss the truth, just as you can have facts missing or some wrong, and reach the larger truth.

Times are you say a person's b'liefs ain't true, they think you're sayin' their lifes ain't true an' their truth ain't true.

There are no facts, there is no truth, just data to be manipulated.

What matters is the imaginative truth.

Of course, afterward, I studied [commentary on the Bible by a Rabbi Moshe Dessauer] more closely. But, in truth, it doesn't touch me. It doesn't change my attitude toward the text.

Whether every story that's there [in the Bible] is a historic truth ... Again, I'm not concerned.

Have not all poetic truths been already stated? The essence of a poetic truth is that no statement of it can be final.

Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language.

I do not think that my films or films by any other filmmaker represent "THE TRUTH." I do not feel the need to categorize my films or anyone else's.

What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.

There are numerous layers to truth, and the simple and superficial statement of facts cannot satisfy the writer.

You know what ART stands for? Above Real Truth.

When you find something funny search it for hidden truth.

It is not meant that the artist, in arriving at truth, must follow the way of the scientist, or, in stating it, the way of the philosopher.

Poetry is when words are robbed of their attributed truth.

the body, seeking truth, sends a signal. But decoding it, interpreting its meaning, and knowing how to proceed from there is another matter entirely.

Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard.

While truth is ultimately convergent, beauty is ultimately divergent. No one can and no one should tell anyone else what that person should consider beautiful.

I've come to understand that the truth isn't really what's important...what really matters is what people agree is the truth. -Greymane

[T]hat is the triumph of history - truth absolute is not at hand; the original with which to match the copy does not exist.