Tuppence Middleton Quotes

Everybody has their thing they like or don't like to see. It's all in your head. That's why people take their own pictures, because it's difficult for someone else to capture what you seek.

When you're reading something, your imagination goes and you see it in your mind. Sometimes my instincts with that are right, and sometimes they're wrong.

Reading is one of the most individual things that happens. So every reader is going to read a piece in a slightly different way, sometimes a radically different way.

Every time I read a script, I see the movie in my head, and I try to see the best movie in my head because everybody interprets the movie differently.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.

I always hate explaining away songs, because for me they mean something, and for other people, they'll mean something absolutely different.

As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery.

The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

The soul never thinks without a picture.

No two persons ever read the same book.

Each reader projects their own version of the experience inside their skull as they go along. It's probably true that no two people read exactly the same book.

I am interested in relating the things we see with the things we see with our eyes closed.

I'm very interested in the question of how we perceive something, how consciousness goes from one thing, like looking at you in your black hat to what it might mean to my imagination and how I would draw that or write that, how I would subjectify you? It's something that is endlessly interesting to me.

The inner eye does not see upon command.

An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.

Some people who've read my story think I had a terrible childhood and that I was neglected or even abused, while others feel that my parents, while certainly flawed, also had truly wonderful qualities. And that's the way it should be, because in real life two people can look at the same president and one will see a hero and the other a villain.

All my work comes from perceiving. I kept seeing things that were brooding in me. I'm not a geometric artist.

Art is interesting because there can be so many different perspectives in a piece of art. The way I see it may be completely different than the way somebody else sees it. It's interesting to hear what somebody sees in a piece of art compared to somebody else. It could be completely different, and that's interesting to me.

The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.

The experience of reading a book is always unique. I believe that you render a version of the story, when you read a book, in a way that is unique and special to each person who reads it.

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

A great poem leaves so much room for everybody to have such a different reaction to it.

Songs are about whatever you want them to be about. For me it might mean something completely different than what it means to you. So I'd say it's about whatever the listener thinks it's about.

Different people get different things out of the images. It doesn't matter what it's about, all that matters is how it makes you feel.