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Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist. -- Jacques Lipchitz
State what you actually see in someone's work first: objects/space/color/directional flow - then content. Interpret. -- Kay WalkingStick
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world -- in order to set up a shadow world of ''meanings.'' -- Susan Sontag
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life. -- Novalis
We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority. -- Alfred Adler
Everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret. -- Camille Pissarro
It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting. -- Mason Cooley
Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams. -- Susan Sontag
To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication. -- James Dean
To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication. -- Marlon Brando
Symptoms, those you believe you recognize, seem to you irrational because you take them in an isolated manner, and you want to interpret them directly. -- Jacques Lacan
Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction. -- Yann Martel
The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself. -- T. S. Eliot
Finally, a good prosecutor knows that her job is to enforce the law without fear or favor. Likewise, a Supreme Court Justice must interpret the laws without fear or favor. -- Amy Klobuchar
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. -- Umberto Eco
I think the difference between finding happiness, or moments of happiness, is how you choose to interpret things. That's a rather shocking responsibility. That we're responsible for our own happiness. It's not those around us. -- Natascha McElhone
It's kind of like a challenge to myself to be able to hear somebody else's hook and kind of interpret the words. Because my own hooks, I already know what I mean when I write them. -- Eminem
But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. -- Umberto Eco
You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see. -- Tadao Ando
You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. -- Tony Robbins
To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently. -- Florenz Ziegfeld
When I was a young man, Dirac was my hero. He made a breakthrough, a new method of doing physics. He had the courage to simply guess at the form of an equation, the equation we now call the Dirac equation, and to try to interpret it afterwards. -- Richard P. Feynman
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
There's always someone who's going to interpret my material as racist, but it's not. Racism comes from intent and power. A racist will tell a joke about a group of people only when they're not in the room. I'll talk about a group of people only when they're in the room. -- Russell Peters
I am more interested in how people interpret the phrase 'Elect The Dead' than what I may or may not have intended. I named the album after the track, which is a spiritual song about love, life and death and is the heaviest song on the album without having any heavy instruments. -- Serj Tankian
The first principle of cognitive therapy is that all your moods are created by your 'cognitions,' or thoughts. A cognition refers to the way you look at things - your perceptions, mental attitudes, and beliefs. It includes the way you interpret things - what you say. about something or someone to yourself. -- David D. Burns
I find that music makes people just sit and listen, firstly. Then, they seem to interpret their own emotions with the music and it makes them ponder their own life a lot. And then they start to question: Am I happy in my work? Am I happy in my relationships? What am I striving for? -- Enya
Art does not imitate, but interpret. -- Giuseppe Mazzini
Powerful women always interpret hostility as unrequited love. -- Tina Brown
Judges should interpret the law, not make it. -- Lamar S. Smith
I'm an actor and my job is to interpret. -- Richard Madden
The insecure leader will interpret critical thinking as critiscism. -- Andy Stanley
As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings -- Ralph Bakshi
we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation. -- Roberto Bolano
We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things. -- Michel de Montaigne
How most consumers collect and interpret health information has changed. -- James Heywood
Ideally, brewers interpret history, and through science they create art. -- Don Spencer
Don't interpret anything too much. This is time waster number 1. -- Dee Dee Artner
I always interpret coincidences as little clues to our destiny -- Ann Brashares
I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction. -- J. M. Coetzee
I do love to interpret songs in American Sign Language. -- Sean Berdy
As we interpret ourselves differently, we also live ourselves differently. -- Judith Butler
An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret. -- Malcolm McDowell
I love it when people want to interpret my books. -- China Mieville
Be careful how you interpret the world: It is like that. -- Erich Heller
Already the new-born children interpret love In the voices of mothers. -- Wallace Stevens
We should let Scripture interpret us more than we interpret Scripture. -- Timothy Keller
Our blunders mostly come from letting our wishes interpret our duties -- Alexander MacLaren
Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality. -- Karl Lagerfeld
A man who would interpret the scriptures must have the spiritual discipline. -- Mahatma Gandhi
As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material. -- Vince Vaughn
I get the lyrics of a tune and interpret them my way. -- Kylie Minogue
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And I like to interpret music. So I think it's all interpretive. -- Katey Sagal
Today can only be as good as you interpret it to be. -- Edmond Mbiaka
Can we not interpret our adult wisdom into the language of boyhood? -- Baden Powell de Aquino
How people interpret my degrees of sexiness is out of my hands. -- Seth Green
It is only by human experiences that we can interpret the Divine. -- Lyman Abbott
We're so obsessed with [big] data, we forget how to interpret it. -- danah boyd
Existence is where the soul goes to learn how to interpret itself again. -- Duncan McNaughton
It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music. -- Kelly Jones
Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life. -- E. B. White
I've always been so surprised by how people interpret my photos in context. -- JR
A brainscan cannot interpret itself and neither can a data dashboard in education. -- Andy Hargreaves
Men and women may speak the same language, but we interpret words differently. -- Pamela Cummins
We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations. -- Kenneth Burke
I learned to interpret the ancient pictograph codices and read Nahuatl, the Aztec language. -- Gary Jennings
Actions don't only speak louder than words; actions should be used to interpret words. -- Andy Stanley
When someone is trying to interpret something for you, they always have an agenda. -- Penn Jillette
Your life can only be as beautiful as you repeatedly interpret it to be. -- Edmond Mbiaka
I will interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with my soul -- Aleister Crowley
Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand. -- Jack London
Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it. -- Arthur Golden
[To] interpret Parmenides as a Kant before Kant ... this is exactly what we must do. -- Karl Popper
The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law. -- George W. Bush
Meanings of all songs come after they are recorded. Someone else has to interpret them -- John Lennon
It is every Americans' right and obligation to read and interpret the Constitution for himself. -- Thomas Jefferson
If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions. -- Catherine Drinker Bowen
No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver. -- Khalil Gibran
Your fears in life are only as fearful as you constantly interpret them to be. -- Edmond Mbiaka
Her smile was like a Samuel Beckett play - easy to read but difficult to interpret. -- Bob Smith
Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible. -- Karl Barth
The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book. -- Umberto Eco
Conscience is the light by which we interpret the will of God in our own lives. -- Thomas Merton
No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions. -- Elie Wiesel
I'm responsible for what I say, but I'm not responsible about how people interpret my situation. -- Juan Pablo Galavis
I vow to interpret every experience as a direct healing of the Goddess with my soul. -- Rob Brezsny
People experience conscious will when they interpret their own thought as the cause of their action. -- Daniel Wagner
Obviously, the emotions I want to convey through music are streamed through the way I interpret life. -- PJ Harvey
Like a historian, I interpret, select, discard, shape, simplify. Unlike a historian, I make up people's thoughts. -- Hilary Mantel
You grow up trying to interpret, worshipping, visual symbols. It's a body-soaked imagery that you're looking at. -- Robert Gober
I'm so reluctant to do newspaper interviews because it's so misleading how they interpret what you say. -- Davy Jones
Scripture is not inerrant; believers are called to interpret biblical texts in light of tradition and reason. -- Jon Meacham
Many a time comes when we want to interpret our weakness and cowardice as forgiveness and renunciation. -- Swami Vivekananda
Those who are lacking in bhakti (devotion), lacking in faith, are ill qualified to interpret the scriptures. -- Mahatma Gandhi
In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret. -- Susan Sontag
Your life can only be as good or as bad as you frequently interpret it to be. -- Edmond Mbiaka
My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept. -- Pierre Loti
We always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want and not as they are. -- Paulo Coelho
You have to be respectful of pop culture, because people interpret it in the way they want. -- Jaleel White
That is the logical tight-rope on which we have to walk if we wish to interpret nature. -- Richard P. Feynman
Our spouse will usually interpret our message based on our tone of voice, not the words we use. -- Gary Chapman
There is a difference between having access to information and having the savvy it takes to interpret it. -- Clifford Stoll
My whole life long I have done nothing but interpret my dreams of ultimate masculinity, and draw them. -- Tom of Finland
It doesn't hurt me unless I interpret its happening as harmful to me. I can choose not to. -- Marcus Aurelius
To live without that enchantment of beauty is to interpret frugality and simple living with a puritan literalism -- John Lane
What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time. -- David Guterson
History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events. -- Robert Harris
We would go out and play these songs and people could interpret them however the hell they wanted. -- Carrie Brownstein
People write music, and the music is out there for people to interpret it how they want to. -- Leona Lewis
Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I try not to interpret things of the world into a single meaning. Rather, I try the opposite. -- Kim Ki-duk
It is only as we focus our thoughts on heaven that we will correctly interpret life on earth. -- Paul P. Enns
Painting is a language of its own. You cannot interpret one form of expression with another form of expression. -- Marcel Duchamp
The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Music's free and music's for everyone to enjoy and express and interpret. It transcends countries and times and decades. -- Bat for Lashes
I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it. -- Oliver Stone
One cannot use the life to interpret the work. But One can use the work to interpret the life. -- Susan Sontag

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