Quotes About Interpretation

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.

I think the true artist - musician, dancer, writer, actor - a true artist is able to sort of articulate pain and tragedy, in a way that sort of expresses what the listener or the beholder may have been feeling but was less able to communicate.

Definitely, 'True Detective' was a great example of one director, one story. It worked fantastically well. Well, I thought it worked fantastically well; I know a lot people didn't.

I know, being a father myself, what my interpretation of true love is, or the essence of love, and you can apply it to other things besides human beings.

Sometimes you have to lie. One often has to distort a thing to catch its true spirit.

I don't think that the spoken words solve everything. Sometimes silence delivers truer feelings while the words can distort the meaning in some situations.

When I look back at my life and think about what really happened, my memory is obscured by the stories I've created out of those incidents. In stories, as reality melds with art, the result sometimes feels truer than real life.

Do we tend to recall the most important parts of a novel or those that speak most directly to us, the truest lines or the flashiest ones?

The fundamental job of the actor is to tell about the human condition, to be a voice for the truest ideas and deepest emotions.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

It's the subtleties of a ballad that truly make it beautiful - and it's all in the way you present it to the listener.

People always say that my work is sensational or shocking but there are truly shocking things you could do, and my sculptures don't go anywhere near that.

When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true.

The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.

Driving a steamroller over an old trumpet or a teaspoon is no more destructive than taking a chisel to a lump of marble already torn from the landscape. But people don't see it that way because marble is considered noble.

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

At the end of the day, you're handing your performance over. If a director says after a take, 'You know what, try it just really angry. Just get furious'... you're like, 'Well, I don't know if I want to give you that because I don't know if I trust what you're going to do with it.'

I follow the director's lead because they generally know more about the big picture, but I also trust that the director will give me enough freedom to play.

I found that the more I'd done Shakespeare, and the more I trusted my instincts and applied the same rules you would apply to any scene, the closer I got to how it's meant to be acted.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.