Quotes About Uncertainty

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

Uncertainty is the essential, inevitable and all-pervasive companion to your desire to make art

Predicting recessions is indeed a dark art, but I think we are several years away from the next one.

When I was three or four, I was really good at drawing and painting, and everyone used to say, "You're going to go to art college." I didn't really know what that meant.

We can't be certain who the villains are cuz everyone's so pretty, but the after party's sure to be the wing-ding as it moves into your city.

Things rarely happen for a single reason. Even the cleverest and most skilled manipulators recognize that their real art lies in making use of that which they cannot predict.

Dive again and again into the river of uncertainty. Create in the dark, only then can you recognize the light.

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -- that is inspiration.

Question everything, even the question mark, that shepherd's crook floating in the air above that small round rockIf you - stubbornly - still wish to be unhappy, maybe you can grasp it.

I look for ambiguity because life is ambiguous!

Art gropes it stalks like a hunter lost in the woods listening to itself and to everything around it unsure of itself waiting to pounce.

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.

Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness.'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.

The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without.

An attitude of philosophic doubt, of suspended judgment, is repugnant to the natural man. Belief is an independent joy to him.

We are so small; and what must one hold on to when one no longer recognizes one's own hands, nor one's step, nor even the small dose of everyday despair.

But I realized that not only did I need to keep tuning my skills as a doctor, I also had to figure out a way to live with the uncertainty of medicine and its attendant anxiety.

there were no guarantees in life, only promises and whispers.

You could never predict what would happen. There was an element of destiny in everything that one could never account for.

Somehow you drift along on the river, and one day you wake up and you're someplace you don't want to be, with someone you realize you don't know.

But even she had figured out that there was no point giving up a great job and following him to the ends of the earth, when he simply refused to make any promises about, or even discuss, the future.

This was real life, not a book. And in real life, people met, nothing happened, and you went home. Or they went o? to Egypt and told you that they weren't a commitment kind of guy after six years. That was real life. Not a guy like Marc. Or the marquis.

She had no idea where the future would lead her or what it would look like, but whatever happened, she was determined to survive it.

I had learned firsthand that tragedy and disappointment can strike any of us at any time.