Quotes About Interpretation

One must always account for the vagaries of truth.

An individual's perception is their reality colored in the shades they desire--not necessarily the color that it is.

No two person, ever read the same book.

Picasso said that art is a lie, but a lie that tells the truth" ... Calder wondered what Picasso had meant. Was it that art wasn't exactly the real world, but it said something real?

There is no truth beyond perception. How you look at things is the truth for you.

Sometimes it seemed difficult for the adults in Sophie's life to tell between 'carried away' and 'absolutely correct but unbelieved.

I prefer, where truth is important, to write fiction.

All of fiction is truthful. What you create is your own truth and no one can take that away or change it.

As every reader knows in his or her heart, there is much more to truth than mere fact.

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.

Sometimes a writer simply finds new ways of saying what has already been said because, ultimately, truth is unoriginal.

They say truth will set you free, it all depends whose truth we are talking about... yours or mine.

I have read the bible, seen its errors and perfections, but the bits of lie contained therein has contaminated the truth.

We fit the pieces of our life together in a pattern, but there is no image on the puzzlebox to guide us.

People add color to their story because they think it happened in black and white.

There is no growth without risk. There is always something to be gained from any experience. It is up to us to interpret our truth of self.

Search for truth, not for meaning. Meaning comes from the perspective of a person who interprets the truth.

We do not see things as they are, nor do we even see them as we are, but only as we believe our story to have been.

Strictly speaking, nothing that's said is true. (Though one can be the truth, one can't ever say it.)

Are we looking for the absolute truth or the absolute feeling? Or the answer that best suits our personal needs?

Everything unsaid can be guessedTruth may not always be confessed

With enough mental gymnastics, just about any fact can become misshapen in favor to one's confirmation bias.

We take it for granted we know the whole story - We judge a book by its cover and read what we want between selected lines.

The artist must paint as he would speak. I don't want people to speculate what I mean, I want them to understand.