Quotes About Interpretation

There was a message to be translated, symbolism to be aligned and understood.

To those watching him, he appeared to dance as he walked.

There is no such thing as truth or untruth. There is simply being, and perception.

They comprehended no divinity that was not plated and segmented.

As the stage lamps were turned up, these shapes were revealed to be pieces of scenery, mere suggestions of forms. To me, it became rocky land, devoid of moisture.

She thinks she has my measure, he thought, but she's not wholly clear about it.

There are two sides to every story, Pharry, and each of those sides can argue that they are right.

That look on your face did not seem to me to be one ever worn by a wife. If it was, I might even be induced to marry someone.

Perhaps there was just too much information for him to interpret, and the important symbols were lost in a confusing maelstorm of ancient memories. Or perhaps the fault lay within himself.

The bloody times, the horror, will just be history to them, words on a page, so how will they dare to judge? Very easily, I should imagine.

Music has been called 'the most noise conveying the least information

The audience as community has come to depend on the performer's skills, and on the force of a personal style, to articulate its common values and interpret its experiences.

Oscar is our Liszt and Bill Evans is our Chopin,

Naw, girl. I mean nekkid." Kelsey looked at both of us in mock disgust before explaining. "Naked is when you don't have any clothes on. Nekkid is when you don't have any clothes on and you're up to no good.

You see what you expect to see. You see what you have the labels to see. You see what you have the skills to manage. Everything else is a blur.

Sometimes, a bone is just a coconut

The anthropologist who asserts absolute confidence in the sex, age, stature and ancestry of a skeleton is a dangerous and inexperienced scientist who doesn't understand human variability.

I no longer know that story. The narrator is unreliable.

the truth was not, despite popular opinion, objective. "Your truth and my truth are not necessarily the same thing, and yet neither is false.

Anger could be like pain: you think it's your ankle that hurts when it's actually your knee. Anger could be referred.

Eminent doctors warned against Munch's Pointillist canvas, Spring Day on Karl Johan, counselling that looking at such pictures brought on spotty conditions such as acne, measles and chicken pox.

The word 'figure' from choreography . . . means something like a momentary attitude of the body or a fragment of a dance.

I have said before that the music is the words and the words are the music It is all there for you to understand if you can and for you to feel, regardless.

No image can be more beautiful than its meaning.