We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.
Jerome BrunerRead
There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that trying to explain art may obscure its true essence and meaning.
Jerome Bruner's quote highlights the idea that analytical attempts to interpret art might disrupt our direct experience and understanding of it. Instead of uncovering deeper truths, these explanations can sometimes conceal the raw and authentic emotional impact that art is meant to convey. Art exists not just for intellectual analysis but for personal and emotional engagement, and any explanation that overshadows this can limit our appreciation of its true significance.
In practice
In a discussion on art interpretation during a gallery exhibition.
We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.
The notion of multiple literacies recognized that there are many ways of being-and of becoming-literate, and that how literacy develops and how it is used depend on the particular social and cultural setting.
The foundations of any subject may be taught to anybody at any age in some form.
Organizing facts in terms of principles and ideas from which they may be inferred is the only known way of reducing the quick rate of loss of human memory.
Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation
Good teaching is forever being on the cutting edge of a child's competence.
Some of the smallest things on a smaller film, to me, are greater achievements than on a big film when you have the resources and the time and everything else.
I often use nameless places in my work as a way of allowing the readers to create more of the novel and to make it potentially about their experiences, what they know, a city that they have perhaps seen on television.
Music and love are the only accomplishments of humanity which do not, in an absolute sense, have to be called attempts with unsuitable means.
For American filmmakers, the Oscars is like a mystic thing. For me, it was being in a mirror of my dreams when I was dreaming of Hollywood when I was an adolescent.
As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next.
What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules & verifies the details & particulars of a valley & its frame of crags & peaks, then Poetry comes, & lays bare the whole landscape with a single splendid flash.
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