The fish trap exists because of the fish: once you have gotten the meanings, you can forget the words.
It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music.
In the Somme valley, the back of language broke. It could no longer carry its former meanings. World War I changed the life of words and images in art, radically and forever. It brought our culture into the age of mass-produced, industrialized death. This, at first, was indescribable.
Every good work should have at least ten meanings.
Reality' is a word with many meanings.
Whatever else a photograph may be about, it is inevitably about photography, the container and vehicle of all its meanings.
Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.
Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.
This was always the problem with my mother and me, I suddenly realized. There were so many things we thought we agreed on, but anythign can have two meanings. Like sides of a coin, it just matters how it falls.
Children are the ultimate investment of all of those that want to make money, to sell, to dominate. So there are two meanings. They are our ultimate investment for anyone who is honest and ethical and loving, but also for all the commerce.
Fashion museums think the more you know about the significance of clothes culturally, the more interesting they are. We certainly don't neglect the aesthetic aspects of clothes. But, I feel that what sets us apart from social, economic, and even aesthetic, or art historical context is that we are not only talking about clothes as kind of art objects created by an artist designer, but also we're talking about the various meanings that clothes have in the world, and how that changes and how we kind of create meanings around clothes.
We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations!
Humans also tend to find community to be pleasurable, and within the boundaries of community relationships, words - often ironic and self-deprecating - are always spoken that take on other meanings when uttered by others.
Meanings of all songs come after they are recorded. Someone else has to interpret them
It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.
It's not for me to share the meanings of others. I am only in charge of my own.
There's a certain Slant of light, Winter afternoons— That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes— Heavenly Hurt, it gives us— We can find no scar, But internal difference, Where the Meanings, are. . . . When it comes, the Landscape listens— Shadows—hold their breath— When it goes, 'tis like the Distance On the look of Death.
All my lyrics are open to interpretation by the individual and imply many different meanings, therefore their relevance is purely subjective.
The [travel] writer, looking back at the journey from a distance of a year or two (or three), is a different character from the hapless character who undertook the trip: wise after the event, with the leisure to tease out meanings from the experience that the distracted traveler never had, and often impatient with his alter ego's blinkered and unsatisfactory version of things.
Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods.