Quotes About Ambiguity

Who am I, really? I prefer to leave that up to the observer, because I will never finish answering that.

I think Passenger is a bit of an ambiguous thing because in the past, it's been a band, or it's been just me, or a duo or whatever, but I kind of like that as well. I think it's whatever that I'm doing with whoever I'm doing it with!

I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I'm from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.

My position is the lack of a position, but, of course, you can't even talk about it; the minute you talk, you spoil the whole game.

I love discomfort. I mean, my whole life is discomfort. One reason I can never retire is that the idea of just sitting on the beach totally comfortable is not a desideratum in my life. I like ambiguity, I like conflict, I like uncertainly.

The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings.

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

I personally feel that no human is a hero or a villain. All of us have our grey sides, and that is why grey interests me: because it's more human, more life-like.

Why should poetry have to make sense?

I don't know if I work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can't do what I want to do.

I like it when one is not certain what one sees. When we do not know why the photographer has taken a picture and when we do not know why we are looking at it, all of a sudden we discover something that we start seeing. I like this confusion.

I don't plan my life or analyse things. Nothing can be predicted about the future, no one can put a finger on what's going to be the next big thing. Why bother?

Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years, anyone with a dissenting opinion has been suppressed. Chinese art is merely a product: it avoids any meaningful engagement. There is no larger context. Its only purpose is to charm viewers with its ambiguity.

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

I am whatever you want me to be and I can't control that. My experience is my experience, but I can't really claim anything. I know when I take my wig off at night and I have to twist my hair up, I'm black. But I don't get too personal most of the time.

When we first played Max's, people thought Cindy and I were drag queens - we wore these gigantic wigs that sort of his our faces.

I've been a radio reporter for ten years, and if I learned anything from my time at 'This American Life,' it's how to craft a narrative so that even if the ending is ambiguous, it is somehow satisfying.

A self-evidently confident politician, Cameron still suffers from a curious hollowness. Ten years after he became Conservative leader, many people still question what he actually stands for or believes in.

As an actor, I tend to enjoy going to the dark side.

Creative processes are always very opaque. Afterwards, you tend to pretend that everything was planned and it was a strategy, but it was not like that at all.

Things have a tendency in the film business to fall apart more often than they come together.

The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified.

Although 'The Anderson Platoon' was what we would now call an 'embedded film' - with all the ambiguities that term implies - somehow Schoendoerffer got away with showing things as they really were from a grunt's perspective.