It falls apart now. They used to be intrinsically linked. Now they've been driven so far apart that I don't think the one has anything to do with the other. Even more so: I think that there is almost a reaction against style, that brute ugliness somehow has been interpreted as being the way to go.
Not everything in life can be interpreted metaphorically; that's because things fall out on the way.
The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interpreted this for nearly two thousand years is sexual chastity. Impurity, we were taught, follows from many sins, but all are secondary to the principal impulse of the devil in the soul--lust.
Paul Robeson once said that the artist has the responsibility to either help liberate the community or further oppress it. And I think that when Eldridge Cleaver wrote it down it was interpreted as his, but there's a history of people saying things of that nature and meaning it. And what I do is in that tradition, in that mode.
There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
Once kitsch is interpreted ironically, it ceases to be kitsch
An interpreter must give his blood to the work interpreted.
My decision to leave 'Ween', however interpreted, was absolutely not made in haste.
Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don't change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.
Interpretations of interpretations interpreted.
What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means this is myself.
Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression (partly in conjunction with sense impressions which are interpreted as signs for sense experiences of others), and we attribute to them a meaning the meaning of the bodily object.
These auspicious aspects, which the astrologers subsequently interpreted for me, may have been the causes of my preservation.
My aesthetic is about simplicity, elegance, and comfort, whether that is interpreted in a man's suit or a track suit.
The facts never speak for themselves. They have to be interpreted in terms of some understanding of where they come from and what the relation between them is.
If most of what we see via the media is not live, it must be edited: sifted for value, interpreted and re-presented for our convenience. We live in a disco, and the DJ is in charge.
Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed.
The experience of being understood, versus interpreted, is so compelling you can charge admission.
Remember, the political idea being expressed a year ago was that because the GOP interpreted its 1994 mandate as a call to budget-balancing austerity, the electorate would never give the White House to the GOP if its nominee was also a root-canal austerian.
Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?