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«Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.»
Author: Avram Noam Chomsky
(Activist, Linguist)
| About:
Language
| Keywords:
fixed, infinitely, interpretation, involves, varied
«I loved the Godfather. I thought that was the best interpretation of our life that I've ever seen. Godfather I and Godfather II-the other one stunk.»
«I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of ''work,'' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.»
«I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.»
Author: Charlie Chaplin
(Comedian, Composer, Film Director, Producer, Writer)
| Keywords:
additional, Creator, explained, fulfilled, interpretation, other than
«I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural.»
«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.''»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
deplete, depleted, depleting, impoverish, impoverishing, interpret, interpretation, meanings, revenge, Revenge of, set up
«In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
amounts, conformable, instances, interpretation, interpreting, manageable, nervous, Philistine, reducing, refusal, tames
«He invented the news magazine. He invested [it] with an interpretation Tell what happened, tell it well, tell it concisely, but with attention to the belletristic imperative.»
Author: William F. Buckley, Jr.
(Writer)
| Keywords:
belletristic, concisely, imperative, interpretation, magazine, The News, with attention
«Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Necessity
| Keywords:
established, interpretation
«Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.»
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