Quotes About Ambiguity

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you ... at any time.

I've had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower I can't quite make out what it is. It takes time.

I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.

Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?

In Hawaii they say, "aloha." That's a nice one, It means both "hello" and "good-bye" Which just goes to show, if you spend enough time in the sun you don't know whether you're coming or going.

What I aim at is an image with a minimum of information and markers, that has no reference to a given time or place.

I didn't know what to expect coming into this year. There were a lot of question marks, and I think that's obvious now. Can we overcome it? Time will tell.

I don't want people to know what is true all the time and that's what keeps the mystery.

You know, for a long time I have been of the opinion that artists don't necessarily know what they're doing. You don't necessarily know what kind of universal concept you're tapping into.

One realizes after a long time that, actually, we are contradictory, all of us.

... the spring, the summer, The chilling autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries; and the mazed world By their increase, now knows not which is which.

The darkness ahead was not impenetrable.

I thought I had a handle on my future. But the future, it turns out, is not a tote bag.

there is always a but in this imperfect world!

Gilbert, what is the matter with you?—why are you so changed? It is a very indiscreet question, I know,' she hastened to add: 'perhaps a very rude one—don't answer it if you think so—but I hate mysteries and concealments.

There are long stretches of time when I don't know what I am doing, or what I have done - nothing mostly, but sometimes it would be nice to know what kind of nothing that was...

There's a lot to be said about the boys, or maybe not so much after all. [entry 6/15/42]

Certainty is missing the point entirely.

My friend Terry says that when you need to make a decision, in your work or otherwise, and you don't know what to do, just do one thing or the other, because the worst that can happen is that you will have made a terrible mistake.

When you are on the knife's edge—when nobody knows exactly what is going to happen next, only that it will be worse—you take in today.

To paraphrase Paul Tillich, the opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty.

Tom said either you learn to live with paradox and ambiguity or you'll be 6 years old for the rest of your life.

Sometimes I could not tell you exactly why, especially when it feels pointless and pitiful, like Sisyphus with cash-flow problems. Other