Quotes about Interpretation

Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.

Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art.

Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.

The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

Our personal dispositions are as windowpanes through which we see the world either as rosy or dull. The way we color the glasses we wear is the way the world seems to us.

A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.

This was such bad writing that it was good.

I only belive in statistics I doctored myself

If there is no infallible Scripture "there can exist only a subjective and purely individual notion of what belongs to Christian faith." All ways are good, if they but lead to faith — not to what is contained in faith, for this differs endlessly.

Scripture knows no twofold religious veneration, one of a lower kind and the other of a higher kind. Roman Catholics, accordingly, admit that worship (latria) and homage (dulia) are not distinguished in Scripture as they distinguish them, and also that these words furnish no etymological support for the way they are used.

We cannot live in a world interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a hope. Part of the terror is to take back our listening, to use our own voice, to see our own light.

The actor is there to translate what's on the page onto the stage or the screen. So I find it important that an actor manages to actually get out of the way, vanish as a person behind the character, never to be seen or talked about again. That's my philosophy.