Freddie Mercury Quotes

I'm not going to parse the statement. You've got the statement I made earlier and the statement speaks for itself.

If you judge everything by how photographically real it looks, then you're missing out on a lot of what art is about and what communication is. There are ambiguities in life, and that should be reflected in art, cinema, and storytelling, I think.

If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation.

I do not understand this analogy," Mencheres muttered.

Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something.

Explanation changes whatever is explained into something explainable.

when driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.

I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.

People have to find ways of explaining the work.

All records are riddles, and whatever you may want people to think it's about, it may just be throwing them off. And you don't want it to get in the way of what someone else's understanding is. It's not really about anything. At the same time, it will find some meaning.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.

It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It's better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it's a very personal thing, and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for somebody else.

Lady Gaga said to me, 'You showed me how it's done.' I have no idea what she meant by 'it.'

I don't think you really can send an exact message, because any two viewers are so disparate, in terms of their backgrounds, their point of view, their histories, that there's no telling what that message might be.

A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.

I want to block some common misunderstandings about 'understanding': In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word 'understanding.'

When we make the show, we are always talking about how the show is really in between what we make and what the viewer thinks of it.

I want people to make sense of what I'm talking about.

To understand is to decipher. To hear significance is to translate.

The sum of a million facts is not the truth.

I don't like to wonder about it-I just like to do it. That's what I mean about the image stuff and all that. There's far too much emphasis being placed on that kind of stuff... the whole emphasis on what does it mean? Everybody has their own particular vision.

Part of the reason I make things realistic is, I don’t really want to have to explain my work. What I wish to communicate is done so people can make their own interpretation, and if it’s different to my idea it doesn't matter.

A non-event ... is better to write about than an event, because with a non-event you can make up the meaning yourself, it means whatever you say it means.