Interpreter Quotes

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life. View quote
Karl Barth
I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do. View quote
Aaliyah
Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything. View quote
Francis Bacon
I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter. View quote
Mark Twain
One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays. View quote
Vivien Leigh
The critical sense is so far from frequent that it is absolutely rare, and the possession of the cluster of qualities that minister to it is one of the highest distinctions... In this light one sees the critic as the real helper of the artist, a torchbearing outrider, the interpreter, the brother... Just in proportion as he is sentient and restless, just in proportion as he reacts and reciprocates and penetrates, is the critic a valuable instrument. View quote
Henry James
[The poet] must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations, as a being superior to time and place. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain. View quote
William Cowper
The new "ambiguity" means, in a way adjudged favorable to literary, poetic, intellectually and psychologically well-devised and praiseworthily executed linguistic performance, uncertainty of meaning, or difficulty for the interpreter in identifying just what the meaning in question is: it means the old meanings of ambiguity with a difference. It means uncertainty of meaning (of a word or combination of words) purposefully incorporated in a literary composition for the attainment of the utmost possible variety of meaning-play compressible within the verbal limits of the composition. (Laura Riding)
Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation. View quote
William Whewell
Art is Nature made by Man To Man the interpreter of God. View quote
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart. View quote
Helen Keller
Say what some poets will, Nature is not so much her own ever-sweet interpreter, as the mere supplier of that cunning alphabet, whereby selecting and combining as he pleases, each man reads his own peculiar lesson according to his own peculiar mind and mood. View quote
Herman Melville
Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of necessity she cannot act otherwise than as reason, who steers her helm, teaches her to act. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
Oh, where is man- That mortal god, that hath no mortal kin Or like on earth? Shall Nature's orator- The interpreter of all her mystic strains - Shall he be mute in Nature's jubilee? View quote
Hartley Coleridge
Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter. View quote
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Most of the prisoners told the interpreter that they are from Mandingo. View quote
Lewis Tappan
A good interpreter can take a piece of bad music and make it sound pretty decent, while a bad interpreter can take good music and make it sound cheap. I can tell that some people have a bad taste, and unlike on the piano, they smear around a lot, that is bad taste. View quote
Ruggiero Ricci
The interpreter is really an executant, carrying out the composer's intentions to the letter. He doesn't add anything that isn't already in the work. If he is talented, he allows us to glimpse the truth of the work that is in itself a thing of genius and that is reflected in him. He shouldn't dominate the music, but should dissolve into it. (Sviatoslav Richter)
The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories. View quote
Nat King Cole
Interpretation thus presupposes a discrepancy between the clear meaning of the text and the demands of (later) readers. It seeks to resolve that discrepancy. The situation is that for some reason a text has become unacceptable; yet it cannot be discarded. Interpretation is a radical strategy for conserving an old text, which is thought too precious to repudiate, by revamping it. The interpreter, without actually erasing or rewriting the text, is altering it. But he can't admit to doing this. He claims to be only making it intelligible, by disclosing its true meaning. View quote
Susan Sontag
The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter. View quote
Cicero