Interpretation Quotes

• Art has to maintain as large a space for interpretation as possible, and to protect itself from being too narrow.

  

  Camille Henrot
  • Art
  • Protect
  • Maintain

• If you can't get yourself understood, you may have trouble, so you need some interpretation every now and again wherever you might be.

  

  Ry Cooder Buena Vista Social Club
  • Trouble
  • Understood
  • Interpretation

• Poetry is what gets lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Lost
  • Poetry
  • Translation

• The framers of the constitution employed words in their natural sense; and, where they are plain and clear, resort to collateral aids to interpretation is unnecessary, and cannot be indulged in to narrow or enlarge the text; but where there is ambiguity or doubt, or where two views may well be entertained, contemporaneous and subsequent practical construction is entitled to the greatest weight.

  

  Melville Fuller
  • Constitution
  • Ambiguity
  • Practicals

• Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Necessity
  • Interpretation
  • Not A Fact

• It is only all too easy to understand the requirements contained in God's Word ('Give all your goods to the poor.' 'If anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the left.' 'If anyone takes your coat, let him have your cloak also. Rejoice always.' 'Count it sheer joy when you meet various temptations' etc.). The most ignorant, poor creature cannot honestly deny being able to understand God's requirements. But it is tough on the flesh to will to understand it and to then act accordingly. It is not a question of interpretation, but action.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Rejoice
  • God's Word
  • Requirements

• It is a fact capable of amiable interpretation that ladies are not the worst disposed towards a new acquaintance of their own sex, because she has points of inferiority.

  

  George Eliot
  • Sex
  • Interpretation
  • Inferiority

• I've always loved to sing with somewhat vague lyrics so people can have their own interpretation and find their own meaning with it. I've become a bit more comfortable speaking about personal matters within the lyrics, but at the same time, there is an element where I'm not always sure how far I want to take it. There are certain topics that I'm discussing that I haven't explicitly explained to my bandmates. That's just for me to know, and I'm not going to talk about it anywhere.

  

  Ed Droste
  • Lyrics
  • Discussing
  • Bandmates

• I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It's fun to see what they'll say it is

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Up
  • Music
  • Fun

• Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation.

  

  William Whewell
  • Men
  • Interpretation
  • Interpreter

• The squalid cash interpretation put on the word success — is our national disease.

  

  William James
  • Disease
  • Interpretation
  • Cash

• Interpretation reached such proportions that the real vanished.

  

  Erich Auerbach
  • Real
  • Proportions
  • Vanished

• If I have taken the word, by any reason, it has been because I think it is grave to kill men, under the pretext that they are mistaken on the interpretation of some point, for we know that even the chosen ones are not exempt from sometimes being wrong.

  

  Michael Servetus
  • Thinking
  • Sometimes
  • Chosen

• Love is not a feeling; it's a sensation. Drinking water when you're thirsty is a sensation, not a feeling. Being in nature or swimming in the sea is a sensation, not a feeling. Lying down when you're tired is sensational, not a feeling, although you may say it feels good. Feeling is an emotional interpretation of experience and these sensations don't need interpretation; they are just good or right. Making physical love rightly is a sensation, not a feeling. So is the love of God. The same goes for joy and beauty; both are sensational.'

  

  Barry Long
  • Beauty
  • Love Is
  • Sensation

• Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Painting
  • Everybody
  • Interpretation

• A geometrical theory in physical interpretation can never be validated with mathematical certainty ... ; like any other theory of empirical science, it can acquire only a more or less high degree of confirmation.

  

  Carl Gustav Hempel
  • Degrees
  • Certainty
  • Mathematical

• Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Fact
  • Necessity
  • Interpretation

• I am not in front of my body, I am in it or rather I am it... If we can still speak of interpretation in relation to the perception of one's own body, we shall have to say that it interprets itself.

  

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty
  • Body
  • Relation
  • Interpretation

• We have a lot of choice about whether to interpret something as adversity or as opportunity. I see in myself the tendency at times to make situations worse than they have to be because of my catastrophic interpretation.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Opportunity
  • Choice
  • Adversity

• I like to hear what other people's interpretations are, because people come up with things I'd never thought about.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • People
  • Interpretation

• Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs and bring about my interpretation of them.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Song
  • Actors
  • Written

• For me a work of art must be an elevated interpretation of nature. The search for the ideal has been the purpose of my life. In landscape or seascape, I love above all the poetic motif.

  

  William-Adolphe Bouguereau
  • Works
  • Landscape
  • Ideals

• When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance. Things and people are not what we wish them to be nor are they what they seem to be. They are what they are.

  

  Epictetus
  • People
  • Power
  • Interpretation

• We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.

  

  William J. Brennan, Jr.
  • Mean
  • Ultimate
  • Framing

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