Interpretation Quotes

There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation.

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

Militarism is basically a way of thinking, a certain interpretation of the function of the state; this manner of thinking is, moreover, revealed by its outer forms: by armaments and state organization.

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

Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.

You work on an idea, your first interpretation is very raw and you work it and you work it and it gets polished and polished. It gets to a certain level and then it comes down off that peak.

Art is life's dream interpretation.

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.

The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model.

You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics.

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

My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story. That's what directors are, they're storytellers because they're directing where your focus is going to be as an audience.

I study history in order to give an interpretation.

This is a much more fitting interpretation of the book than its modern interpretation.

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

The longer I live, the more faith I have in Providence, and the less faith in my interpretation of Providence.

I never felt interpretation was my job.

I knew that I could be more creative onstage, to state my own case and deliver my own interpretation of the role much more aggressively than in the recording studio.

I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It's fun to see what they'll say it is.

Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. It introduced the notion that there existed certain predictable and identifiable processes by which dreams were formed.

I'm not trying to be romantic. I think you can tell when people are trying to be sexy onstage. When I was doing 'All the Way,' I was really thinking about my wife. People don't know my personal experience, but they can tell it's an honest interpretation.

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.

The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine.

I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people.

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.