Interpretation Quotes - Page 4

• Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

  Noam Chomsky

  Language Words, Law, Generations

  Noam Chomsky (2003). “For Reasons Of State”, p.402, Penguin Books India

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• The life of every citizen is becoming a business. This, it seems to me, is one of the worst interpretations of the meaning of human life history has ever seen. Man's life is not a business.

  Saul Bellow

  Men, Citizens, Becoming

  Saul Bellow (1964). “Herzog”

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• Our job is to make manifest the story, to be it. In a sense, the theatre is such a big star itself, bigger than any Shakespearean actor I could hire, that we should take the opportunity to fill it with voice and verse and movement, not interpretation.

  Mark Rylance

  Jobs, Stars, Opportunity

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story. That's what directors are, they're storytellers because they're directing where your focus is going to be as an audience.

  Dennis Quaid

  Strong, Focus, Directors

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• If youre going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If youre going to use some sort of conceptual interpretation thats based on the tradition of those standards, but is trying to move away from it, youre down to about 10 people or so.

  Branford Marsalis

  Moving, People, Trying

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• I like to interpret 'Call me a River', as if I'm saying, 'Now you're telling me you love me after all that, and I'm telling you to shove off.' That's my interpretation. But I would never 'say' that because somebody else might interpret the song in another way.

  Diana Krall

  Song, Rivers, Might

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• I knew that I could be more creative onstage, to state my own case and deliver my own interpretation of the role much more aggressively than in the recording studio.

  Kiri Te Kanawa

  Creative, Roles, States

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• But, I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that's written, he becomes mechanical; he has no freedom.

  Buddy Rich

  Writing, Thinking, Play

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• That your own interpretation of a work of art is flagrantly subjective seems to be regarded as an arrogant attitude. But the truer view is that the interpretative artist can only make his own comment upon the work.

  Tyrone Guthrie

  Art, Attitude, Views

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• Maybe to try to understand not just that we are living in a certain building or in a certain location, but to become aware that we are living on a planet that is going at enormous speed through the universe.

  Andreas Gursky

  Photography, Our World, Understanding

  "The Most Expensive Photograph In The World". www.huffingtonpost.com. November 10, 2011.

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• The most pleasurable thing in the world, for me, is to see something and then translate how I see it.

  Ellsworth Kelly

  Art, Vision, World

  Madeleine Grynsztejn, Ellsworth Kelly, Julian Myers, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2002). “Ellsworth Kelly in San Francisco”, p.9, Univ of California Press

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• Without the interpretation of the universe by man to the glory of God the whole world would be meaningless

  Cornelius Van Til

  Men, Would Be, World

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• 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.

  Edward Weston

  Reality, Fusion, Revolution

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• Realizing how often ingenious speculation in the complex biological world has led nowhere and how often the real advances in biology as well as in chemistry, physics and astronomy have kept within the bounds of mechanistic interpretation, we geneticists should rejoice, even with our noses on the grindstone (which means both eyes on the objectives), that we have at command an additional means of testing whatever original ideas pop into our heads.

  Thomas Hunt Morgan

  Real, Mean, Eye

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• If we think that this life is all there is to life, then there is no interpretation of our problems, our pain, not even of our privileges. But everything changes when we open up to the possibility that God's story is really our story too.

  Max Lucado

  Pain, Thinking, Stories

  "Interview: Max Lucado on Storytelling, the Church, and Politics". Interview With Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. October 5, 2011.

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• State what you actually see in someone's work first: objects/space/color/directional flow - then content. Interpret.

  Kay WalkingStick

  Color, Space, Flow

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• Today, we're encouraged to believe that we should have a verbal interpretation for what we view as art - when in fact the words are an intrusion on the experience.

  Ken Danby

  Art, Believe, Views

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• 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.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Different, Gains, Easier

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• Bill Maher is right to condemn religious practices that violate fundamental human rights. Religious communities must do more to counter extremist interpretations of their faith. But failing to recognize that religion is embedded in culture — and making a blanket judgment about the world’s second largest religion — is simply bigotry.

  Reza Aslan

  Religious, Failure, Rights

  "Bill Maher Isn’t the Only One Who Misunderstands Religion" by Reza Aslan, www.nytimes.com. October 8, 2014.

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• But let us emphasize that right and wrong, righteousness and sin, are not dependent upon man's interpretations, conventions and attitudes. Social acceptance does not change the status of an act, making wrong into right. If all the people in the world were to accept homosexuality, the practice would still be a deep, dark sin.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Attitude, Acceptance, Dark

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• The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order.

  Anna Garlin Spencer

  Writing, Expression, Order

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• I guess because you study the character and you do all those things. But when it comes down to it, it's still my performance, it's still my interpretation. I'm not going to, you know, be a clone - well, I was a clone of Richard Dean Anderson!

  Michael Welch

  Character, Study, Dean

  "Jacked In". Interview With David Read, www.gateworld.net. July 30, 2004.

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• The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed.

  Charles Rosen

  Confidence, Past, May

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• Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Revenge, Women

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• Digital imaging has untied our hands with regards to technical limitations. We no longer have to be arbiters of technology; we get to participate in the interpretation of technology into creative content.

  John Dykstra

  Technology, Hands, Creative

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