Quotes About Obscurity

There are many artists that I know exactly where they are born and what their names are and where they live, which are still very, sort of, hidden. Even Nick Cave, who has a film about himself nowadays, is still someone who I would claim to be utterly enigmatic.

That an obscure Filipino computer-user can spread confusion through the global computer networks by launching the 'I love you' virus is possible only because the computer loves us and, feeling abandoned, like Hal in 2001: A Space Odyssey, takes its revenge by suiciding the network.

She was a shadow, kept alive by a flame of hatred for somebody who had long ago forgotten all about her.

Estas cadenas no me parecieron, sin embargo, muy pesadas, en tanto en cuanto, ignorado por el público, viví en la oscuridad.

I felt that the success of the enterprise was in my hands: the moment had an obscure meaning which had to be trimmed and perfected ; certain motions had to be made, certain words spoken : I staggered under the weight of my responsibility. I started and saw nothing, I struggled in the midst of rites which were invented on the spot and tore them to shreds with my strong arms. At those times she hated me.

There is something mysterious in this work that I do not ever what to discover.

I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs.

If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a more commanding one.

I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.

In labouring to be brief, I become obscure.

No one recognises me on the street, ever.

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

I was overlooked long before anyone knew who I was.

that she might slip off into that space where she stared, go for good to whatever she kept watching.

The fish fanciers, sitting by their ponds and gazing into their depths, were tracing shadows darker than they understood.

We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.

Hun ser skygger hvor solen skinner og mørke i den klare dag.

The world's asleep,' Moomintroll thought. 'It's only I who am awake and sleepless. It's only I who have to wander and wander, day after day and week upon week, until I too become a snowdrift that no one will even know about.

would this scrap of leather have been mortared into the wall where no one would ever see it? Was it some kind of secret sign?

Dusky, so how did she not exist at all for this human? It was like being invisible, but a different kind of

To this day, no one knows who Pauline Réage is.

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

The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed.

I want to be famous but unknown!