"There's nothing wicked in Shakespeare, and if there is I don't want to know it."

Interpretation, Literature, Morality, Innocence, Perception

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"They don't directly listen to you.They just hear things within their minds that triggered by your words."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"Every quote is like a Picasso. The meaning is different for each person and half the admirers miss the true intent and twisted humor of it all."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

Interpretation, Quotes, Art, Meaning

"If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine."

Diana Wynne Jones, English Writer

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"All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you."

Joss Whedon, American Writer

Interpretation, Art, Creativity, Independence

"I blamed the Bible,when its words were not at fault,only the way they're interpretedby those too willingto wield them like chain saws,cutting others off at the knees."

Ellen Hopkins, American Novelist

Interpretation, Religion, Violence, Blame

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

George Eliot, British Author

Interpretation, Key

"Not everything written on Kafka is Kafkology. How then to define Kafkology? By a tautology: Kafkology is discourse for Kafkologizing Kafka. For replacing Kafka with the Kafkologized Kafka."

Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian Writer

Interpretation, Literature, Language, Meaning, Criticism

"Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Interpretation, Intention, Laws, Liberal, May

"Again, all of life presents us with two basic ways to treat events. We can either label them 'god for us' or 'bad for us.' The event is only an event. It's how we treat the event that determines what it becomes in our lives. The event doesn't make that determination - we do."

Chris Prentiss, American Author

Interpretation, Mind, Perception, Reality

"In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on our character, which underlines the simple truth that no person leaves himself behind in order to look at a painting."

Siri Hustvedt, American Novelist

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"We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble."

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"I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine."

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"Hunger is a wayOf standing outside windowsThe entering takes away."

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"Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality."

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"To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few."

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"They don't directly listen to you.They just hear things within their minds that triggered by your words."

"Every quote is like a Picasso. The meaning is different for each person and half the admirers miss the true intent and twisted humor of it all."

"If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine."

"All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you."

"I blamed the Bible,when its words were not at fault,only the way they're interpretedby those too willingto wield them like chain saws,cutting others off at the knees."

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

"Not everything written on Kafka is Kafkology. How then to define Kafkology? By a tautology: Kafkology is discourse for Kafkologizing Kafka. For replacing Kafka with the Kafkologized Kafka."

"Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved."

"Again, all of life presents us with two basic ways to treat events. We can either label them 'god for us' or 'bad for us.' The event is only an event. It's how we treat the event that determines what it becomes in our lives. The event doesn't make that determination - we do."

"In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on our character, which underlines the simple truth that no person leaves himself behind in order to look at a painting."

Explore more quotes by Emily Dickinson

"We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble."

"I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine."

"Hunger is a wayOf standing outside windowsThe entering takes away."

"Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality."

"But it is growing damp and I must go in. Memory's fog is rising."

"Fame is a bee.It has a song -It has a sting -Ah, too, it has a wing."

"The past is not a package one can lay away."

"I like a look of agony, because I know it's true."

"Or help one fainting RobinUnto his Nest againI shall not live in vain."

"To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few."