Top 14 Interpretive Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Interpretive Quotes from famous people such as Jason Robards, Josh Tillman, Clive Davis, Charles Ray, Eugene H. Peterson, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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Projection of sound gives the stage a life different from real life. As actors and interpretive artists, we must not only be able to know the attitude of the script, we must also make ourselves heard – without amplification.
Jason Robards
Interpretive thinking, as an art form, is dying.
Josh Tillman
You see the genius that Whitney Houston has as an interpreter of material, and you realize why genius can be applied to only a few interpretive performers. She finds meaning and depth and soulfulness in a song that often the writer and composer never really knew was there.
Clive Davis
Work is rich. It can be looked at psychologically or philosophically or personally. The interpretive nature of work is different than the work itself. The interpretation of work isn’t the key to understanding it. I’m worried about making a good sculpture. I’m not so worried about the interpretation of it.
Charles Ray
Pastors need to know what’s going on in the world and what has been going on for 4,000 years. We need a way to read Scripture which is imaginative, interpretive.
Eugene H. Peterson
And I like to interpret music. So I think it’s all interpretive.
Katey Sagal
Sometimes, late at night on the set of ‘Project Runway,’ I’ve been known to pop an interpretive dance.
Zac Posen
There’s a lot of films that have relatively rigid road maps because they have a script and others that are less rigid because they have less of a script, like ‘Elephant.’ The road map becomes more interpretive, maybe, than one with a detailed script. Editing-wise, they all have their problems.
Gus Van Sant
When they are performing in front of the public, they ought to have a sensation that’s relatively easy, if the technical and the interpretive work was done before.
James Levine
When I started out, I was absolutely awful, I had no voice, I didn’t have a lot of stage presence and most of the interpretive intensity that I brought to the experience was actually terror.
Jimmy Webb
Being an actor all of my life is kind of a collaborative, social form of interpretive art. Sitting down with a blank page every day by yourself is a different feeling.
Michael Beck
It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions.
Zadie Smith
Visual storytelling combines the narrative text of a story with creative elements to augment and enhance the traditional storytelling process. By design, it is a co-creative process resulting in an intimate, interpretive, expressive technique.
Debbie Millman
The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.
Paul de Man