Quotes About Ambiguity

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

What would please me most is to make photographs as incomprehensible as life.

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers.

When we are not sure, we are alive.

For certain things, certain audiences, people will laugh. And in other places, there's dead silence. And I enjoy them both. You try to make films where it's never one way - like life.

I don't know why, but life is usually more complicated than the plans that we make.

Life is like a long ride to nowhere in particular.

For most of my life I had operated under a simple schematic of winning and losing, but cancer was teaching me a tolerance for ambiguities.

I learned quite early on in life that we are all two people. And one of those people none of us will ever know.

You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of painting.

I'm filthy stinking rich - well, two out of three ain't bad.

Most of life is grey, with a little tiny bit of black and white.

Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.

There's a gigantic gray area between good moral behavior and outright felonious activities. I call that the Weasel Zone and it's where most of life happens.

Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.

The words we use to surround death are bizarre. Like we're hiding something.

I realized that as bad as it is not to know, the not knowing is something too. You can still do something with that.

In the middle of this poor life, we are surrounded by mystery, and the pity of it is that we would rather just be poor. No real tolerance for mystery at all.

and more relaxed about living with uncertainty about the rest.

Everything was a tempest in grey and steely blue, the line of the horizon merely a suggestion.

How is a person supposed to prepare for what happens tomorrow when there's just no figuring out today?

The future is unclear. But it's still mine.

Relationships are incredibly amorphous. They could get back together. They could stay friends. Who's to say what will happen in the future?

It was the promise of maybe, maybe one day.