Quotes About Interpretation

It is the devious writer indeed who writes in such a way that the critic who finds himself unresponsive to the writer's vision feels like a philistine.

Huge volumes of data may be compelling at first glance, but without an interpretive structure they are meaningless.

Between the stimulation received from the environment and our response, certain processes had to occur inside the brain, and cognitive researchers revealed the human mind to be a great interpreting machine that made patterns and created sense of the world outside, forming maps of reality.

All history is really nothing more than the application of ideology to the past.

good data organized effectively was the most important commodity for any analyst.

For some reason or other, Loge had a horrible feeling that by We, Wotan meant him.

There ought to be a dictionary of smiles; somewere you can look them up and find out what they mean.

We're making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality.

The function of the artist is to provide what life does not.

The ugly may be beautiful, the pretty never.

To an artist a metaphor is as real as a dollar.

In the world according to the positivist, the inspiring thing about scrambled eggs is that any way you turn them they're sunny side up. In the world according to the existentialist, the hopeless thing about scrambled eggs is that any way you turn them they're scrambled.

Hi. Honey! exclaimed Patsy. Good to hear your voice! Listen, I oughtta go pull my robe on 'fore we commence. You caught me nekkid as a jaybird. 'Nekkid' or 'naked,' mama? What's the blessed difference? Are you making Yankee fun of the way I talk? The way you used to talk? No, no, mama, let me tell you. Naked means you just don't have any clothes on. Nekkid means you don't have any clothes on and you're fixing to get into trouble.

The function of the artist,' the Navajo answered, 'is to provide what life does not.

It might be noted here that Freudian analysts of fairy tales have suggested that kissing toads and frogs is symbolized fellatio. In that regard, Princess Leigh-Cheri was, on a conscious level, innocent, although not so naïve as Queen Tilli, who though fellatio was an obscure Italian opera and was annoyed that she couldn't find the score.

Matters are very seldom all black or white. They can even be both at the same time - The Beer Fairy

Boomer had asked her once, in a telephone call from Virginia, "Why does this stuff, these hand-painted hallucinations that don't do nothin' but confuse the puddin' out of a perfectly reasonable wall, why does it mean so much to you?" It was a poor connection, but he could have sworn he heard her say, "In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

One has not only an ability to perceive the world but an ability to alter one's perception of it; more simply, one can change things by the manner in which one looks at them.

Claude and Marcel LeFever were speaking in French. This simultaneous English translation is being beamed to the reader via literary satellite.)

That's the value of the artist... Even when they aren't aware, they're dreaming our dreams for us.

The function of the artist," the Navajo answered, "is to provide what life does not.

It might be noted here that Freudian analysts of fairy tales have suggested that kissing toads and frogs is symbolized fellatio. In that regard, Princess Leigh-Cheri was, on a conscious level, innocent, although not so naive as Queen Tilli, who thought fellatio was an obscure Italian opera and was annoyed that she couldn't find the score.

Was it wife soup and husband soup on the Other Side? Or was it simply soup?

the Impressionists were able to lead the viewer into mixing color in his or her own eye.