Quotes About Obscurity

The absolutely alienated individual worships at the altar of an idol, and it makes little difference by what names this idol is known.

It was dark inside that box. Not the blackness of night, but a complete absence of light.

Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is rich and famous.

Mark how my fame rings out from zone to zone:A thousand critics shouting: "He's unknown!"

This is what's beautiful about staying in a club or hotel: you're invisible, as is your neighbour.

thought of the countless people in the world who were born to live and die in anonymity, playing out lives no better or worse than anyone else's and no one noticing. Sometimes we give others who don't make a big mark in some way a moment in the limelight in fiction. Our novelists' eyes and ears say to our readers, "Look here, please. Listen. This existence mattered, too." That

I remember hoping there'd be 10 people at a show in 1998 when there was an incredible write-up in the local weekly. I don't want to go back to that period of being obscure and having nobody know who I am, let alone have to struggle to get people to come to the show.

I'm in the process of trying to organize my DVDs into some kind of order and it's taking me weeks. I have everything from obscure 'Antonioni' to 'Terminator Salvation.'

We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very many people.

I photograph artists, and some of them are very well known, but if you ask the average man on the street, 'Do you like Anselm Kiefer?' He would stare at you with a blank stare, because these are not celebrities. They are celebrated in a specific circle.

I'm happy to be the guy on the subway that people stare at and they just can't quite place it. I don't really like my life intruded upon too much. In a way, it's kind of nice to not be all that well known.

I always wanted to be the underdog. For me, as a portrait photographer, it's the kiss of death to become well known. I did my best work when no one knew who I was. People weren't threatened by me because they didn't think I was a big deal.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

I've played around with the notion of making a series on the premise of 'Alps' because it's one of the films no one saw.

I foresee that poverty and obscurity probably await me, and I am in some measure prepared and daily preparing to meet them.

You can have an Internet presence, but it doesn't mean anyone has any idea who you are or what you look like. Which is great.

I've always been attracted to darkness.

See you in the darkness.

It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows.

By 2012, my game was shot. You're sitting on your chair watching players' leagues below you play shots you can't. That destroyed me.

I am about as detailed as a shadow.

If I am out in the street or buying bread or taking a taxi, no one knows who I am.

At heart, women are creatures of darkness all the time.

What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.