Interpretive Journey Quotes

When I make my drawings... the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to the gesture of a man groping his way in the darkness.

Literature takes reality and human experience as its starting point, transforms it by means of the imagination, and sends readers back to life with renewed understanding of it and zest for it because of their excursions into a purely imaginary realm.

I think that ultimately - as I say to most of the people who are acquiring art - I can tell you my reality of a piece, but ultimately what's more important will be yours. I can tell you what a piece means to me, but just as valid if not more is what it means to you.

You're really looking for the truth of what the piece is about. And that's going to be different for different people.

Everybody interprets things differently with their own perception, and I want poetry to pull out of them their own feelings.

As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you're attached to it.

If the poem has no obvious destination, there's a chance that we'll be all setting off on an interesting ride.

My films are like clouds: their meaning keeps changing every minute.

The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.

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