Best 174 quotes in «interpretation quotes» category

An extraordinary and controversial interpretation of Shakespeare's origins, which certainly provokes much thought. A radical analysis of Shakespeare's text, leading to a conclusion which is bound to amaze the reader and the scholar. Who was Shakespeare?

A novel is a machine for generating interpretations.

Every interpretation is but an introduction to another interpretation, and that is how Talmud pages are printed.

A philosopher who says, 'There are no truths, only interpretations,' risks the retort: 'Is that true, or only an interpretation?'

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

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

Buddha never rejected Hinduism, but he broadened its base. He gave it a new life and a new interpretation.

By now even the word socialism has so many meanings and interpretations. The Russians call themselves socialists, the Swedes call themselves. And let's not forget that in Germany there was also a national socialism.

Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees.

Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole.

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.

Everything begins in thought and the reality is only our interpretation of the situation.

Ginnifer Goodwin said it very well - we're not doing the Hall Of Presidents at Disneyland. This is my interpretation of [J.F] Kennedy.

I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural.

God either rules as sovereign in interpretation over *all* areas of life or none.

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

I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about.

I am not in front of my body, I am in it or rather I am it... If we can still speak of interpretation in relation to the perception of one's own body, we shall have to say that it interprets itself.

I am the third Jenkin Jones to preach that liberal interpretation of Christianity generally known as Unitarianism.

I do not document anything, I give an interpretation.

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

I feel like great TED Talks are ones that are a little bit subject to interpretation, that do provoke further conversation - and potentially controversy.

I have never said that the terrorists' interpretation of Islam is the accurate or correct one. But I have pointed out that the terrorists portray themselves quite successfully among Muslims as the exponents of true and pure Islam, and moderates have mounted no successful response as yet.

If I were forced to sum up in one sentence what the Copenhagen interpretation says to me, it would be 'Shut up and calculate!'

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

I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation.

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

I'm inspired by the music, always have been, always will be, it's only what a track or instrumental interpretation from a producer can do that will excite my pen into making magic for someone else to enjoy..Only the music inspires me.

It must be noted that it is often the colleague or direct disciple of a new thinker who gets stuck in literal interpretations of the work, tending to freeze the new ideas and language into an inflexible, static condition.

Life is like art - it is all about interpretation.

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

Money commands everything because that's our interpretation of capitalism ... what kind of world is that? It's a very uncomfortable interpretation of a human being. We have been turned into robots.

Love wasn't a piece of music you could play over and over again with different interpretations. It actually needed to be improvised as you went along.

Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation.

No dream symbol can be separated from the individual who dreams it, and there is no definite or straightforward interpretation of any dream.

Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter.

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

Poetry's magic lies in the imagery which satifies even without interpretation..it is accepted as easily as it was created.

Paradoxically, the simpler poetry is, the more difficult it becomes for a critic to discuss intelligently. Trained to explicate, the critic often loses the ability to evaluate literature outside the critical act. A work is good only in proportion to the richness and complexity of interpretations it provokes.

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

One of the exciting things about producing a comic is seeing the artist stamp his own interpretation on it.

Perception is a selective act of attention and interpretation.

poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you will, of journalism and metaphysics, or of science and religion.

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

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

Restricting too personal, and therefore prejudiced, interpretation leads to revolution - the fusion of an inner and outer reality derived from the wholeness of life - sublimating things seen into things known.

Shy” was the sympathetic interpretation she got from older people. “Snotty” was the interpretation she got from people her own age.

Shake yourself free from the manikin you create out of a false interpretation of what you do and what you feel, and you'll at once see that the manikin you make yourself is nothing at all like what you really are or what you really can be!

The best way to refine an interpretation is by getting out and performing.

So our virtues lie in the interpretation of the time