Quotes About Interpretation

History gives you insight of the same quality of truth as poetry or philosophy or a novel.

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.

What you see is not true, but what you think about what you see is the truth.

There is no absolute truth. There is only your truth.

My truth could be very different than your truth.

People forget that there's two sides to every story. Of course somebody is going to tell the side of it that makes them look good and exaggerate the rest to make everyone else look bad.

I have wondered that even in the era of colour the black and white photographs are so appealing? I feel that as per saying - in black and white -they speak the truth.

The color of truth is grey.

Understanding is a three edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth.

In this treacherous worldNothing is the truth nor a lie.Everything depends on the colorOf the crystal through which one sees it

Give me the facts and I will determine my own truths.

Everything in life is speaking in spite of its apparent silence.

The truths that matter most to us come always half spoken.

There are three sides to every story: yours, theirs, and the truth somewhere in the middle.

At last, in those far-off deserts, I finally knew that the observer is part of his subject: and I understood that there could be no definitive Lawrence, but only an infinite number of Lawrentian images, like crystals in the eyes of his beholders. What I discovered was my Lawrence and my truth, for 'truth' is of more than one kind: the kind which remains static, and the kind which bends and shifts according to the individual and the time.

why let the truth get in the way of a good story?

It was a lot more wide open as to what a song was," Ranaldo says. "A song was a lot more about sound and structure than it was about chords and progressions and stuff like that.

Literally every one of MacKaye's lyrics was addressed to some unidentified second person.

Michael B. Oren

The works of the past don't have to be right to be great works.

I suppose," she said to Paddington as they stepped on the escalator, "we ought really to carry you. It says you're supposed to carry dogs, but it doesn't say anything about bears.

Depth is not something the writer puts into a book; it's something the reader takes out of it.

Every work of art is one half of a secret handshake.

He nodded then cocked his head and gave me a sharp, policeman like look, as though realizing that he had been on the wrong page with me all along. I fell under the heading of Dealing with Assholes.