Interpretation Quotes · Page 13

Our songs aren't metaphorical, normally: they're literal in their interpretation.

— Brad Paisley

“Interpretation, based on the highly dubious theory that a work of art is composed of items of content, violates art.”

— Susan Sontag

The ultimate lesson of The Interpretation of Dreams: reality is for those who cannot sustain the dream.

— Slavoj Žižek

Really the best way to learn about something is simply to read it and not make a scientific theory of interpretation.

— Mark Helprin

It's very hard for all of us, when we've committed ourselves to a particular interpretation, to change our minds.

— Donald Johanson

Have you not noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than your harsh ones?

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

“We degrade God too much, ascribing to him our ideas, in vexation at being unable to understand Him.”

— Dostoyevsky

“Perception is always interrogative and conditional and is invariably based (even if we do not realize it) on a bet.”

— Umberto Eco

Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information.…

— Henning Mankell

As much as I appreciate people putting me in the category of these very acrobatic belters, I feel like my strength is…

— Idina Menzel

If behind popular fascination with Freudian theory there was a nervous, often guilty preoccupation with the self as sexual, behind increasing interest…

— Sherry Turkle

Maybe to try to understand not just that we are living in a certain building or in a certain location, but to…

— Andreas Gursky

“Although social relationships may be crippled by acrimonious minefields, manipulative psychological gambits or mysterious undercurrent power games, a number of social tell-tale…

— Erik Pevernagie

Actually, it's as if [Superman is] more real than we are. We writers come and go, generations of artists leave their interpretations,…

— Grant Morrison

“When a fact appears to be opposed to a long train of deductions, it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

I love artists like Jon B, but I don't wanna be compared to anybody. I'm just doing my interpretation of rnb and…

— Brian Harvey

Religions are vague, of course. This means that they are easy to follow -you can interpret their prescriptions as you like. but…

— Fareed Zakaria

Arlen Specter is the man who voted in favor of Bill Clinton during impeachment, voted against Robert Bork for the Supreme Court,…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

When we express our needs indirectly through the use of evaluations, interpretations, and images, others are likely to hear criticism. When people…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description…

— Fritjof Capra

If I sing "you broke my heart, you left me flat," everyone knows exactly what that means - they know the story.…

— Bobby McFerrin

The physicist may be satisfied when he has the mathematical scheme and knows how to use for the interpretation of the experiments.…

— Werner Heisenberg

“What is the difference between my view and the classical Christian perspective? I am convinced that there are not multiple comings and…

— Eli Of Kittim

Without doubt, the foremost band for decades has been the One O'Clock Lab Band at the University of North Texas. Through its…

— Gary Burton

We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations.

— Kenneth Burke

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

— Helene Grimaud

Corruption is the by-product of discretion when there is scope for interpretation of policies.

— Piyush Goyal

“Most of the time, there is no truth, only various levels of interpretation. Fact is a construct we provide to the public.”

— Lauren Willig

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

— Leon V. DePoncins

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

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Johan Huizinga

I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.

— Lawrence Durrell

But if you constantly insist only on your own interpretation, it isn't long before it seems patronizing.

— Martin Schulz

It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.

— George Eliot

My point is that meaning is always personal, changeable and subjective. There is no 'correct' interpretation of a photograph.

— Bill Jay

The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.

— Elliot W. Eisner

There is a way to change your past: Change your interpretation of your past! New interpretation, new past!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A prayerful study and experience are essential for a correct interpretation of the scriptures.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Vladimir Ashkenazy