Quotes About Interpretation

Ah, já entendi - disse eu. - É uma parábola. Que giro. Vamos comer.

I like big butts, Renoir explained to Toulouse-Lautrec.

Sometimes, it turned out, art was what you had to say, not how you said it.

Is "ho" always feminine, and "muthafucka" always masculine, while "bitch" can be either? How

Perhaps I'll call it Luncheon on the Grass, then," said Manet. "Since I've clearly forgotten to paint the model wet enough.

Quoi?" she had said, in perfect fucking French.

What is possible is subjective. It's a matter of perspective.

Books are mirrors, You only see in them what you already have inside you -Christopher Paolini

I'm not sure you would understand." The elf folded his hands in his lap. "I might not; that is true. But then, you cannot know for certain unless you try to explain.

When she finished, there was a long, long silence, and she could see the eyes of both Akawe and Koyich darting back and forth as they messaged each other.

another finger sign I'd never seen before

For feeling, not events, is to me the essence of history.

Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult," he said, "but because it wishes to be art.

If two smart and logical people disagree it's because they are acting on different information

Thus, when we read Genesis we are reading an ancient document and should begin by using only the assumptions that would be appropriate for the ancient world. We must understand how the ancients thought and what ideas underlay their communication

bir yazar?n edebiyat okumas?n?n bir at bak?c?s?n?n at pisli?iyle u?ra?mas?ndan farks?zd?r (...)

Communication, for

The poet John Ciardi pointed out, "Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at women and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Did you hear the nonsensical prattle spewing from her pie-hole?

The reason [Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts] doesn't believe in the Bible is because he didn't write it himself.

A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.

Translation is the art of failure.

Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is more a case of verba tene, res sequenter: grasp the words, and the subject will follow.

Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used to tell at all.