Interpretation Quotes · Page 9

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see…

— Man Ray

Yet is was very difficult to seperate her interpretation, and keep it distinct from his meaning.

— Elizabeth Gaskell

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

— Xaviera Hollander

When I perform I try and focus on the lyrics and my interpretation of the lyrics.

— Stephen Schwartz

“Interpretation through the filters of ideology has always been one of our race's curses.”

— Peter F. Hamilton

All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies.

— Hermann Hesse

What appears on the screen is what people see. Everything else is just interpretation.

— Emily Maitlis

History is a matter of interpretation, but you have to start with certain facts.

— Peter Kuznick

Restricting too personal, and therefore prejudiced, interpretation leads to revolution - the fusion of an inner and outer reality derived from the…

— Edward Weston

I wouldn't claim to know what another person is thinking. I can imagine it, but it's my interpretation, and I try to…

— Cass McCombs

Each haka has its own interpretation, but you have to make sure you are in unison with your team-mates; the haka should…

— Jonah Lomu

We have a lot of choice about whether to interpret something as adversity or as opportunity. I see in myself the tendency…

— Marianne Williamson

Reading and understanding the Bible involves lots and lots of interpretation. Not just in light of the world and culture around us,…

— John Piper

In schools of theology Negroes are taught the interpretation of the Bible worked out by those who have justified segregation and winked…

— Carter G. Woodson

Religion is, by definition, interpretation; and by definition, all interpretations are valid. However, some interpretations are more reasonable than others.

— Reza Aslan

I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds…

— Eberhard Weber

Babies learn most of what they know from interactions with their parents, but not of the formal, instructional variety. Babies learn from…

— Sandra Scarr

In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity…

— Susan Sontag

Empathic listening is so powerful because it gives you accurate data to work with. Instead of projecting your own autobiography and assuming…

— Stephen Covey

I don't mean to sugarcoat the figure on restatements, but I think it is positive - it shows a healthy system. The…

— Steve Odland

The Text is plural. Which is not simply to say that it has several meanings, but that it accomplishes the very plural…

— Roland Barthes

Art's effect is due to the tension resulting from the clash of the collocation of elements of two (or more) systems of…

— Yuri Lotman

That Hegelian dialectics should provide a wonderful instrument for always being right, because they permit the interpretations of all defeats as the…

— Hannah Arendt

But I should be very sorry if an interpretation founded on a most conjectural scientific hypothesis were to get fastened to the…

— James Clerk Maxwell

One place exists as their interpretation of it. For the people living and thriving inside of it, it's another place.

— Jacqueline Woodson

“The question concerning Jesus: do you want to know the real story, or just the allegory?”

— Eli Of Kittim

The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction.

— Rem Koolhaas

The nature of photography has always resisted that temptation of interpretation. I look, and what I see looks back at me.

— Gerard Malanga

Sometimes I do it more literally, sometimes I do a little softer [interpretation], but I'm just inspired by the past.

— Zendaya

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.

— John Buchanan Robinson

“We're literal people, you and me. Whatever the most obvious interpretation is, that's our truth.”

— Brenna Yovanoff

What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?

— Antonin Scalia

“When you’ve been given a curse of perspective you don’t stop to consider the gift of oversight that most humans have been…

— Saim .A. Cheeda

“Huge volumes of data may be compelling at first glance, but without an interpretive structure they are meaningless.”

— Tom Boellstorff

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

— Edward Said

I do think my lyrics have gotten... not necessarily more poetic, but more open to interpretation; they're less literal.

— Lindsey Buckingham

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

— Riccardo Muti

Hugh Lynn Cayce, Edgar Cayce's son, is quoted as saying, The best interpretation of a dream is one you apply.

— Henry Reed

“She seemed never to be troubled by the notion that there might be two sides to a story, or more than one…

— Vivian Gornick

We doubt that any facts actually exist. We only have observations and interpretations. Most of the interpretations remain questionable.

— Peter J. Carroll