Quotes about Interpretation

Lawyers spend a great deal of time shovelling smoke.

He has a head that is for rent unfurnished.

Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the singing of birds? People love the night, a flower, everything that surrounds them without trying to understand them. But painting - that they must understand.

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

And unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are all wall-eyed.

A terrible crisis unquestionably has arisen in the Church. In the ministry of evangelical churches are to be found hosts of those who reject the gospel of Christ. By the equivocal use of traditional phrases, by the representation of differences of opinion as though they were only differences about the interpretation of the Bible, entrance into the Church was secured for those who are hostile to the very foundations of the faith.

Billie offers to dig the garbage pit but does so by digging a neat tiny coffinshaped grave instead of just a garbage hole—Even Dave Wain blinks to see it—It's exactly the size fit for putting a little dead Elliott in it, Dave is thinking the same thing I am I can tell by a glance he gives me—We've all read Freud sufficiently to understand something there

Sometimes, words are twisted and don't reach people in their intended way.

In free society art is not a weapon...Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.