Quotes About Ambiguity

In Hollywood you just fail upwards.

When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.

I do hope I play out the contradictions that I feel, all the anxieties and dilemmas. If they're there in the work, then that's brilliant.

...what I try to do is a good bad picture. I work it out very carefully, and then I do something that looks as if it went wrong.

To be an inventor, you have to be willing to live with a sense of uncertainty, to work in this darkness and grope towards an answer, to put up with anxiety about whether there is an answer.

Mystery is the essential element of every work of art.

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

People who work every day are kind of scared of things they don't understand.

For me it remains an open question whether [this work] pertains to the realm of mathematics or to that of art.

Not all of our heartless plans work as we intend; nor do all of our good intentions. We are where we are, and we can rarely predict where we will go, no matter how firm our beliefs.

A strong work of art really leaves people speechless. They feel a little angry because they don't understand it.

So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!

Any work that is really great hovers between terrific and terrible.

For me the meaning of my work is much more fluid.

Are you outside or inside the work­? You don't really know.

Mutilated corpses with a chance of afternoon showers. I got dressed and went to work.

As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play.

In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.

U2's best work has always been when we didn't know what we're doing.

Much of the excitement we get out of our work is that we don't really know what we are doing.

It's just so hard sometimes to work out where people stand on these things. I mean, isn't the Pope a feminist?

I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time though, uncertainty returns.. your thought process goes on.

I looked at him. "You really need to work on your threats. I can't tell if you're threatening me or inviting me for tea.

You know, I think a lot of times what happens when we as actors know we're playing a bad guy is we get into bad guy mode. You know what, man? In real life, bad people do good things too and good people do bad things. So you don't necessarily have to be the stereotypical bad guy to still do bad things.