Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Life is an intricate play with actors waiting for an explanation. Each added act confers a new interpretation of the story. (… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
As a rule I do not like to explain my photographs, I want my pictures to be read and explored. I believe… — John Gutmann Copy Share Image
Most of my professional work has been in these areas - as a historical critic, as a literary critic. I've done very… — Hershel Shanks Copy Share Image
For me, the canvas is an abstract interpretation of a wall. It's a piece of art with its own history, one that… — Jose Parla Copy Share Image
My favorite Galaxie 500 album is the first one, 'Today,' recorded in three days at Noise New York and produced by Kramer.… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
“All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. Friedrich… — Jez Humble Copy Share Image
Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I like the idea all memory is fiction, that we have queued a couple of things in the back of our minds… — Steven Tyler Copy Share Image
You will find a blissfulness which contains in it sadness also, because that sadness gives it depth. Watch Buddha's statue - blissful,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
[Sigmund Freud] makes the interpretation of dreams extremely simple: it deals in substance with discovering what unconscious desires, distorted but recognizable, are… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“It is often said that great works of art are “inexhaustible”—capable, as Stanley Olson put it, of “endless interpretation. But Lubin, the… — Roger Kimball Copy Share Image
The notion of dream interpretation far antedates the birth of psychoanalysis, and probably served an important function in most, if not all,… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness. Our interpretation of physical fitness is the attainment and maintenance of a uniformly developed… — Joseph Pilates Copy Share Image
My voice in combination with the harp - which, by the way, I use because I've played it my entire life, not… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
“The task of general semiotics is that of tracing a single formal structure which underlies all these phenomena, this structure being that… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“[...] a good interpretation makes sense of such an impressive amount of mutually corroborating data that coincidence must be excluded. Such a… — Y. Duhoux Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by the music, always have been, always will be, it's only what a track or instrumental interpretation from a producer… — Truth Hurts Copy Share Image
The game of cricket existed long before I was born. It will be played centuries after my demise. During my career I… — Donald Bradman Copy Share Image
“When people die and especially when they die tragically, others can't help but get carried away. They come up with their implausible… — Francesca Marciano Copy Share Image
Each time you go to the same track you know whether you're improving or whether you're not... it's not open to interpretation.… — Eric Bana Copy Share Image
The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive,… — Charles Rosen Copy Share Image
Digital imaging has untied our hands with regards to technical limitations. We no longer have to be arbiters of technology; we get… — John Dykstra Copy Share Image
Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Religion by itself was not meant to be a divisive tool. All of our religious teachings have similar rules, such as a… — Leymah Gbowee Copy Share Image
Not getting our needs fulfilled is painful - but it's a sweet pain, not suffering, which is what comes from life-alienated thinking… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
It is a truism to say that a good experiment is precisely that which spares us the exertion of thinking: the better… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
“Your understanding and interpretation of [a novel] is undoubtedly unique…and that is the real beauty of the relationship that joins readers, books… — Briar Kit Esme Copy Share Image
“Is not a critic," asks Professor Stoll, "... a judge, who does not explore his own consciousness, but determines the author's meaning… — W.K. Wimsatt Copy Share Image
“All art, be it writing, painting, film, dance, whatever, is a manipulation of time and space. It’s an interpretation and a recreation… — Elisa Lorello Copy Share Image
It's not enough to identify the Superobjective intellectually; you have to justify it, to find the emotional drive behind it. You need… — Larry Moss Copy Share Image
I remember when I first started having these interpretations of these images, these clichés of what movie stars are and this and… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
The concept of justice I take to be defined, then, by the role of its principles in assigning rights and duties and… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Johnny was sobbing in shuddering gasps, telling me his small tale of woe, that the world was suddently different, and that he… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
“So, interpretation must proceed wholly by fitting those authors into their social and historical environments. Anything else is alleged to be a… — Peter A. Lillback Copy Share Image
I don't believe my interpretation's inerrant. I don't believe anybody else's interpretation is inerrant, but I do believe the scripture is inerrant.… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
More than anything, I think everything about appearance is illusory. People see you, and they think they understand what you're projecting, but… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
The life of every citizen is becoming a business. This, it seems to me, is one of the worst interpretations of the… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
![“Most of my professional work has been in these areas - as a historical critic, as a literary critic. I've done very little in the history of interpretation [as Elie Wiesel has]. I've been interested in it, but I have not contributed to that field, really.” quote by Hershel Shanks](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/6fd/hershel-shanks-25800_areas_most-of-my-professional-work-has-been-in_2052259.jpg)
![“[Sigmund Freud] makes the interpretation of dreams extremely simple: it deals in substance with discovering what unconscious desires, distorted but recognizable, are hid-den in the dream. Instead, for me the dream is a mixture of thoughts and sensations that man has when he is asleep, a mental…” quote by Erich Fromm](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/00c/erich-fromm-367_constant_sigmund-freud-makes-the-interpretation-o_2635105.jpg)
![“[...] a good interpretation makes sense of such an impressive amount of mutually corroborating data that coincidence must be excluded. Such a result cannot be reached without sound practice and good method.” quote by Y. Duhoux](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/887/y-duhoux-287660_decipherment_a-good-interpretation-makes-sense-of-suc_773813.jpg)
![“Your understanding and interpretation of [a novel] is undoubtedly unique…and that is the real beauty of the relationship that joins readers, books and writers together in a literary trinity—a bookish triumvirate.” quote by Briar Kit Esme](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/671/briar-kit-esme-49270_beauty_your-understanding-and-interpretation-of_2494143.jpg)
