All Quotes, Interpretation

33+ Quotes On Interpretation

Interpretation means an explanation or way of explaining. Interpretation refers to a particular adaptation or version of a work, method, or style. Interpretation is the act of interpreting something as expressed in an artistic performance. This is a collection of Interpretation quotes and sayings.


All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation. - Walter Benjamin
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. - Susan Sontag
The art of interpretation is not to play what is written. - Pablo Casals
Our interpretations of subjects are clouded by our intellects. - Carl Purcell
All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation. - George Eliot
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us. - Johan Huizinga
Directing is an act of interpretation. - James Watkins
All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies. - Hermann Hesse
The truest interpretations are those with the best justification. - Bernard Ramm
Interpretations, criticisms, diagnoses, and judgments of others are actually alienated expressions of our unmet needs. - Marshall B. Rosenberg
To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations. -Andre Gide
The interpretation that makes you ardent and hopeful and active and reverent is the true one. - Rumi
Reality is how we interpret it. - Yann Martel
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. - Sigmund Freud
The best way to refine an interpretation is by getting out and performing. - Joshua Bell
Interpretation is the evidence of growth and knowledge, the latter through sorrow - that great teacher. - Eleanora Duse
The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation. - Takeshi Kitano
The supply of interpretations, like that of advice, greatly exceeds the need for them. - Harry Stack Sullivan
The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology. - Jean Genet
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. - Friedrich Nietzsche
We see, not change of aspect, but change of interpretation. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
Look to the essence of a thing, whether it be a point of doctrine, of practice, or of interpretation. - Marcus Aurelius
The interpretation of dreams is a great art. - Paracelsus
Through interpretation, understanding; through understanding, appreciation; through appreciation, protection. - Freeman Tilden
We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations. - Kenneth Burke
The interpretation of facts in a certain way stimulates other scientists' thoughts. - Robert Barany
Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization. - Naguib Mahfouz
There's a lovely freedom of will when you approach a character that no one has really come across before, because it is your own interpretation. - Rose Leslie
Rules are for the obidience of fools and interpretations of smart men. - Colin Chapman
Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Anything produced and then exhibited for public view is open to interpretation. - Wesley Morris
Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one. - Henry Moore
Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation. - William Whewell Renee Fleming
Nothing is inanimate; what is the rest is our interpretation. - Dejan Stojanovic
Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation. - William Whewell
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