Quotes About Ambiguity

Arguments that explain everything... explain nothing

The fly in her argument is that when she says, 'they' will feel like lemons, we don't know who 'they' are. And 'they' might BE lemons.

The purpose of art is mystery.

I am interested in solving an unknown factor of art and an unknown factor of life.

I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories.

The only art I'm interested in is the art I don't understand right away. If you understand it right away it really has no use except as nostalgia.

Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear

In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.

Art at its greatest is fantastically deceitful and complex.

It is either easy or impossible.

Mystery is the basic element of all works of art.

It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.

I am not so sure whether what we do now is art or something not quite art. If I call it art, it is because I wish to avoid the endless arguments some other name would bring forth.

I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.

Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.

For me, art begins when there is something left that cannot be explained.

All artists are two-headed calves.

Grey has no agenda. . . . Grey has the ability, that no other colour has, to make the invisible visible.

Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart.

While appropriation art is critical to art, it's an ambiguous art form in the world of the Supreme Court.

For me, art is supposed to be a question mark.

Art is arbitrary but it sort of reveals itself to be right or wrong anyway.