#interpret

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

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In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

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I think that there are changes that have occurred in technology that make is that more people can have the same level of information that I have. My advantage is that I'm very good at interpreting the information. ↗

— Jim Cramer

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Interpreter of Maladies is the title of one of the stories in the book. And the phrase itself was something I thought of before I even wrote that story. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

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The business of reading and interpreting the Bible in South Afria is a tricky one! The Bible is everywhere and in the hands of many, including the pain inflictors. ~ Mogomme Alpheus Masoga ↗

— Gerald O. West

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[C]hange your thinking, your interpretation of he world, change the way you see! To change the way you see is to change the world. (50) ↗

— Jean-Yves Leloup

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It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading. ↗

— Mike Tyson

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There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to a string, although for obvious reasons originally scored for an orchestra. If in such cases the interpretation is equal to the composition the balance of a wind combination is more satisfying. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

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