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Quotes about Interpretation

I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
— Henri Matisse
When you're doing something where you really like the material, it doesn't matter what medium it's in.
— Christina Ricci
Acting is acting, be it any medium.
— Sanjeeda Sheikh
When you're a writer, your song has to resonate with the person you're writing for in order for them to want to sing it. But if you're an artist, you can sing whatever you want.
— Mike Posner
An actor's resource base must be life itself.
— Shabana Azmi
As an actor, it's exciting to play a role that's so far from what you are and to have people respond to it like a real human being!
— James Wolk
If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.
— Alberto Giacometti
There's just something creatively fulfilling about watching a movie and writing a song for it because it helps you put on another pair of shoes.
— India Arie
What St. Augustine so aptly says of the mutual relation of the Old and New Testament, "Novum Testamentum in Vetere latet, Vetus in Novo patet,
— Philip Schaff
The duty of the historian is not to make the facts, but to discover them, and then to construct his theory wide enough to give them all comfortable room.
— Philip Schaff
People would much rather argue their own visions and conceptions about a book than engage in a dialogue with the author, because the author could always trump you with, 'I wrote it.'
— Chris Claremont
Art is often defined as a famous masterpiece in a gallery, and we are meant to visit the work and view it to appreciate it. But that is not all there is.
— Ryuichi Sakamoto