Quotes About Concealment

Creativity is the art of concealing your sources.

I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings.

I try to conceal art with art.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

The concealment of art by the actor is as great a mark of genius as it is in the painter.

It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.

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

Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," said I, "still thou art a bitter draught.

You didn't have to wash it as often and it hid the blood stains better!

In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.

It has been a sort of maxim, that the greatest art is to conceal art; but I know not how, among some people we meet with, their greatest cunning is to appear cunning.

True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.

Reveal art; conceal the artist.

I believe in art that conceals art.

Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.

Art is most effective when concealed.

Everybody's wearing a disguise, to hide what they've got left behind their eyes.

I'm always hiding the books in my closet, and my art's always turned upside down in my drawer.

So for years I kept mum about my passion for needle arts.

It is art to conceal art. -Ars est celare artem

Art lies in concealing art.

Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.

All my images are self-portraits, even when I'm not in them.

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see, but it is impossible. Humans hide their secrets too well....