Multiple Meanings Quotes

• I am always surprised at all the things people read into my photos, but it also amuse me. That may be because I have nothing specific in mind when I'm working. My intentions are neither feminist nor political. I try to put double or multiple meanings into my photos, which might give rise to a greater variety of interpretations.

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  Cindy Sherman

  People   Giving   Feminist  

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• Any good album title has multiple meanings, and I like choosing titles where I find myself repeating it, almost like a mantra.

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  DJ Shadow

  Titles   Albums   Multiple Meanings  

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Any photograph has multiple meanings: indeed, to see something in the form of a photograph is to encounter a potential object of fascination. The ultimate wisdom of the photographic image is to say: “There is the surface. Now think – or rather feel, intuit – what is beyond it, what the reality must be like if it looks this way.’ Photographs, which cannot themselves explain anything, are inexhaustible invitations to deduction, speculation, and fantasy

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  Susan Sontag

  Reality   Thinking   Fascination  

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.23, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private languages and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through symbol systems in which every element has multiple meanings determined by juxtaposition.

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  Gregory Maguire

  Elements   World   Juxtaposition  

  2152

• Some words have multiple meanings. Scholastic, aware that I'm allergic to preservatives, kindly got someone to translate the phrase "I can only eat food without preservatives" into Italian. They warned me, however, as they taught me how to say it, that the Italian word for "preservatives" is the same as the word for "condom." So that I should be careful how I look when I say it.

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  Maggie Stiefvater

  Italian   Looks   Phrases  

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• I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings.

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  Anne Stevenson

  Friends   Art   Shy  

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