Interpretation Quotes

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

The best criticism, and it is uncommon, is of this sort that dissolves considerations of content int...

Today is such a time, when the project of interpretation is largely reactionary, stifling. Like the ...

To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened...

Some dreams tell us what we wish to believe. Some dreams tell us what we fear. Some dreams are of wh...

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

To establish evolutionary interrelatedness invariably requires exhibiting similarities between organ...

The image titled “The Homeless, Psalm 85:10,” featured on the cover of ELEMENTAL, can evoke multiple...

He who, while unacquainted with these writings, nevertheless knows by the natural light that there i...

In order to pronounce a book bad it is not enough to discover that it elicits no good response from ...

The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes hims...

...Whilst on board the Beagle I was quite orthodox, and I remember being heartily laughed at by seve...

The idea is to spin the wheel of metaphors and images until sparks of associations begin to fly for ...

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - ...

In Western culture, virtually everything is understood through the process of storytelling, often to...

Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by...

When you write it, don't write it in the manner of a spooky story. Don't try to give an explanation....

You judge people in the context of their time, not in the context of ours.

When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For...

The aim of interpretation is not agreement but understanding

I'm a scientist and I know what constitutes proof. But the reason I call myself by my childhood name...

The fundamental difference between an instinctive response and an emotion is this: An instinctive re...

All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge,...

He turned, as he spoke, a peculiar look in her direction, a look of hatred unless he has a most perv...

It is necessary, first of all, to find a correct logical starting point, one which can lead us to a ...

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a func...

I have forgotten my umbrella.

Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philo...

If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.

Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed.

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

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's you...

Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.

The word of God came down to man as rain to soil, and the result was mud, not clear water. (Bistami)...

There is no such thing as an innocent reading, we must ask what reading we are guilty of.

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the hum...

NOTICEPersons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting t...

Have you thought about what it means to be a god?" asked the man. He had a beard and a baseball cap....

I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who...

I study history in order to give an interpretation.

I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of his...

The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything ...

The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

Every man, it seems, interprets the world in the light of his habits and desires