Meaningful Interpretation Quotes

Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling a story or writing about a fresco by Giotto or studying how a snail climbs up a wall.

Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.

To read as if your life depended on it would mean to let into your reading your beliefs, the swirl of your dreamlife, the physical sensations of your ordinary carnal life; and simultaneously, to allow what you're reading to pierce routines, safe and impermeable, in which ordinary carnal life is tracked, charted, channeled. Then, what of the right answers, the so-called multiple-choice examination sheet with the number 2 pencil to mark one choice and one choice only?

I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it - in a world in which everything else is out of control.

When I think about what part of my college experience came back in my work experience, I feel like it was learning how to read deeper, learning how to keep filling the movie up with more and more resonance.

It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.

Man’s writing has but one true sense, which is that which the Author meant when he writ it.

It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything.

I don't buy art in order to leave a mark or to be remembered; clutching at immortality is of zero interest to anyone sane.

In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.

In art it is always as though the question is what the work of art is really about.

We need to discern what it is that requires reflection in our lives and in what we read and how we read it.

There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny.

This is really showing me what certain movies mean to people.

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.

What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.

I think that's the important thing - being aware of that inspiration and being able to interpret it into something that's meaningful for you.

Without art there is no hope.