Quotes about Interpretation
I find myself through my readers; I understand what I wrote when I see that others understand it too.
— Paulo Coelho
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
— Tertullian
Give me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument.
— Winston Churchill
You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument.
— Desmond Tutu
Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?
— Pablo Picasso
Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
— Samuel Beckett
I don't say everything, but I paint everything.
— Pablo Picasso
Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
— Nikki Giovanni
Art is not living. It is the use of living. The artist has the ability to take the living and use it in a certain way and produce art.
— Audre Lorde
Art is not living. It is the use of living. The artist has the ability to take the living and use it in a certain way and produce art.
— Audre Lorde
I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.
— Pablo Picasso
Avant-garde is French for bullshit
— John Lennon