Quotes About Interpretation

Photography was inspired by painting, cinema by theatre and photography, I don't believe that any new art form was ever created from scratch.

I'm a great looker at pictures and paintings, and so forth. That's what I look for - a kind of formal beauty. I want that in my photography. It isn't always what we conventionally think of as beauty.

Even if you don't state your ethnic background anywhere on LinkedIn or whether you are married with children, a scan of your photos and other people's photos featuring you will make it far easier to deduce.

It never occurred to me that there were so many wonderful photos that had been orphaned and were out there in the world, waiting to be found. Over time, I found a lot of very strange pictures of kids, and I wanted to know who they were, what their stories were. Since the photos had no context, I decided I needed to make it up.

I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar.

I do like to turn a phrase, but it's all about how you turn it.

It's very hard to imagine the phrase 'consumer society' used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England.

I respond to mood. I hear some phrase, or pick up a rhythm.

The more songs I've written, the more I've grown interested in telling a story. When I first began, I had this list of opaque phrases where you can make of it what you want.

I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word 'wobble?' You think that's arbitrary? When you say the word 'wince,' you wince. How about that?

When I'm trying to find my way into a character, the voice and physicality are the first two things I do.

Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.

I had always felt deep down that I owned the characters. Much as I adored and cherished the work of my actors, I felt that they were cast to do and be what I could not physically do or be.

Music is a very physical experience, and I need to understand things physically to be able to create the narrative for them.

The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.

One does not play the piano with one's fingers: one plays the piano with one's mind.

Fingers don't have much to do with playing the piano. The idea that they do must be unlearned.

'Le Reve' may be one of the three best pictures Pablo Picasso ever painted.

'Matisse and Picasso' is a little like Plato after Socrates. Socrates only taught in words. He didn't write. And after that, you had Plato and Aristotle to write about what he had said. I write about them because they didn't write about them.

I think Picasso is more feminine than Matisse.

Picasso's sculpture has incredible strength combined with a lack of pomposity.

They pick all of us out, and then they decide, they computerize, decide if they like it or don't like it, and then they go home, and then they come back again because they're not sure what they saw.

I had dinner with Marlene Dietrich in the early 1970s. I went to pick her up and she had someone with her, a dreadful man. He was writing a book about her, and he said to her, 'You're so cold when you perform,' and she said, 'You didn't listen to the voice.' She said the difficulty was to place the voice with the face.

I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.