Interpretation Quotes

Art is life's dream interpretation.

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

I think that the essential instruction of the Bible is very much topical. The sole problem is that with every change of historical setting, you need to readjust the interpretation of the message.

Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses.

I loved the Godfather. I thought that was the best interpretation of our life that Ive ever seen. Godfather I and Godfather II - the other one stunk.

I will not be a slave to my image, nor will I be a slave to anyone else's interpretations of me.

Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation.

I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.

I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation.

It is always possible to argue against an interpretation, to confront interpretations, to arbitrate between them and to seek for an agreement, even if this agreement remains beyond our reach.

I have a very connected history with Bilal. I heard his demo years ago. I heard all of the magic instantly. He's a master at interpretation of song.

The supply of interpretations, like that of advice, greatly exceeds the need for them.

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

Eccentric doesn't bother me. 'Eccentric' being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn't follow the lines - that's okay.

I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.

It is not important whether or not the interpretation is correct — if men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.

I should like to write about what happens when fictive people encounter and are embellished by real people.

I believe that interpretation should be like a transparent glass, a window for the composer's music.

What we feel is not based on our experience, but on our INTERPRETATION of experiences.

I do not document anything, I give an interpretation.

Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term.

Appeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretations of the present.

It is perhaps just dawning on five or six minds that physics, too, is only an interpretation and exegesis of the world (to suit us, if I may say so!) and not a world-explanation.

Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.

The piece of music is nothing without the act of interpretation. That is the only way it can live, and it's a totally abstract thing.

How you feel is not the result of what is happening in your life-it is your interpretation of what is happening.

A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.

The world is a progressively realized community of interpretation.

I dont like being told someones interpretation of something that I do.

Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.

I never felt interpretation was my job.

The Ruy Lopez occupied a constant place in my opening repertoire. In it is reflected the classical interpretation of the problem of the centre.

Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation.

Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness.

To the extent that these [New Deal policies] developed, they were tortured interpretations of a document [the Constitution] intended to prevent them.

The Bible is a supernatural book and can be understood only by supernatural aid.

There's no way that I know of to avoid pain absolutely, but suffering is the interpretation we choose to place on the pain we encounter.

Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of the world as paintings and drawings are

Translation presents not merely a paradigm but the utmost case of engaged literary interpretation

Masculinity & femininity are just styles. They are interpretations

Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.

All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

I think my great book is Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song.

A freak is basically anyone who needs fantasy, degradation, or punishment in order to achieve his interpretation of erotic gratification.

Every experience that we have is unique to us because at some deep level we make an interpretation of it.

Fred Hoyle and I differ on lots of questions, but on this we agree: a common sense and satisfying interpretation of our world suggests the designing hand of a superintelligence.

Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, by the ideas and the theories.

Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation.

Freemasonry, Judaism, and Occultism, whose alliance and reciprocal interpretation no longer require demonstration.