Quotes About Interpretation

He says to land," Tharkay translated, with improbable brevity; at Laurence's frowning look he added, "and he calls us a great many impolite names; do you wish them all translated?

Amateurs and little children may draw a rough picture of a horse that can be recognized to be the picture of a horse. But when the master artist draws a picture of a horse, those who see it not only recognize it as a horse, but they also exclaim, "How wonderful! It is like it is alive!" The artist paints action, reality, and life into the picture.

There are no handles upon a language Whereby men take hold of it And mark it with signs for its remembrance.

Well, she said, that picture is the kind of picture that gives pleasure to the kind of people who like that kind of picture.

Birds fly like birds and a man who has taken the devil's weed flies as such. - As birds do? - No, he flies as a man who has taken the weed.

The world doesn't yield to us directly, the description of the world stands in between.

in every explanation there is a hidden apology.

Hablamos de religión o de economía? - Elija usted la nomenclatura.

We think we understand a song's lyrics but what makes us believe in them, or not, is the music

Justice is an affectation of perspective, not a universal value.

Una historia es, en definitiva, una conversación entre quien la narra y quien la escucha, y un narrador solo puede contar hasta donde le llega el oficio y un lector solo puede leer hasta donde lleva escrito en el alma.

Perhaps part of your problem is that you've been reading the commentators and not the people they were commenting on. A common mistake but fatal when you're trying to learn something.

All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction.

It is one thing to believe in women, and another to believe what they say.

I was no longer able to hear the music that issues from a decent piece of prose.

Books are mirrors - you only see in them what you already have inside you

Don't make the mistake of confusing the word of God with the missal industry that lives off it.

La diferencia entre un crimen y una hazaña suele depender de la perspectiva del observador

Sabe, Daniel? A veces pienso que Darwin se equivocó y que en realidad el hombre desciende del cerdo, porque en ocho de cada diez homínidos hay un chorizo esperando a ser descubierto —argumentaba

Wie schön der Herr spricht. Man sieht dass Sie ein Hinterlektueller sind.

In commercial art - and all art that is worthy of the name is commercial sooner or later - stupidity is almost always in the eye of the beholder.

De cada mil personas que adquieren un cuadro o una obra de arte, sólo una de ellas tiene una remota idea de lo que compra —le explicaba Salvat, sonriente—. Los demás no compran la obra, compran al artista, lo que han oído y, casi siempre, lo que se imaginan acerca de él. Este negocio no es diferente a vender remedios de curandero o filtros de amor, Germán. La diferencia estriba en el precio.

All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is that man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other purpose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species. It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for a human being. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake. As I said, pure biology.

Da ljudi misle ?etvrtinu onoga što govore, ovaj bi svijet bio raj.