#interpretation

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#human #human knowledge #interpretation #knowledge #takes

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.

#actor #back #bring #ever #frank

This is a much more fitting interpretation of the book than its modern interpretation. ↗

— Robert Vaughan

#fitting #interpretation #modern #more #much

Allowing Texas to display the Ten Commandments on State property but disallowing Kentucky courthouses from doing the same is a poor and flawed interpretation of the U.S. Constitution. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

#commandments #constitution #display #doing #flawed

Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care; that's what poetry is supposed to do. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#care #fact #feminists #i #in fact

Eccentric doesn't bother me. 'Eccentric' being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn't follow the lines - that's okay. ↗

— Crispin Glover

#bother #eccentric #follow #interpretation #lines

Today is such a time, when the project of interpretation is largely reactionary, stifling. Like the fumes of the automobile and of heavy industry which befoul the urban atmosphere, the effusion of interpretations of art today poisons our sensibilities. In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world - in order to set up a shadow world of 'meanings.' It is to turn the world into this world. ('This world'! As if there were any other.) The world, our world, is depleted, impoverished enough. Away with all duplicates of it, until we again experience more immediately what we have. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#interpretation #art

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

— George Eliot

#interpretation #key #know #meanings

I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take. ↗

— Oliver Stone

#come #debris #fine #give #give and take

Militarism is basically a way of thinking, a certain interpretation of the function of the state; this manner of thinking is, moreover, revealed by its outer forms: by armaments and state organization. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

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