Quotes About Interpretation

Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.

You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.

It is human nature to want to exchange ideas, and I believe that, at bottom, every artist wants no more than to tell the world what he has to say.

Memories are like moonbeams; we do with them what we want.

The hands find a way to do what the heart wants to say

Ballet is not just movement, not simply abstract. It's something beautiful. Sometimes there's this feeling in the movement that makes me want to cry.

A photographer's reality is what he or she wants to show.

People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...

Myth does not want to be interpreted in cosmological terms but in anthropological terms or, better, in existentialist terms.

There needs to be an app that edits what I say versus what I want to say.

A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake.

My whole mode is to do what I want to do and let people understand me through that.

I find a face beautiful, good looking, attractive, and all the terms you want to use, once I know them.

I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.

The Bible is like a bull fiddle, you can play almost any tune you want on it.

You believe what you want to believe

One wants to see the artifice of the thing as well as the subject.

A slick way to outfigure a person is to get him figuring you figure he's figuring you're figuring he'll figure you aren't really figuring what you want him to figure you figure.

Sometimes I want to joke but my English isn't perfect. Sometimes people are wondering what I'm talking about.

It's like telling Mozart that there are too many notes in an opera. Which one do you want us to take out?

That's the beauty of books. We get to take what we want out of them and it can be different for everyone.

I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to read it can read it.

At the end of the day, the end of the movie is sort of ambiguous - it's whatever you want it to be.