Quotes About Clarity

Leonardo called "the noblest pleasure, the joy of understanding.

What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer.

When i tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

Everything to be imagined is an image of truth.

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

To Generalize is to be an Idiot; To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit.

May God us keep From Single vision and Newton's sleep.

Fear & Hope are — Vision

If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite

I am as sane as you are.

For the beginning is assuredly the end- since we know nothing, pure and simple, beyond our own complexities.

Say it! No ideas but in things.

Lifeless in appearance, sluggish dazed spring approaches- They enter the new world naked, cold, uncertain of all save that they enter. All about them the cold, familiar wind- Now the grass, tomorrow the stiff curl of wildcarrot leaf One by one objects are defined- It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf But now the stark dignity of entrance-Still, the profound change has come upon them: rooted, they grip down and begin to awaken

Silence can be complex too, but you do not get far with silence.

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary. (on Ernest Hemingway

I am trying to say it all in one sentence, between one cap and one period.

liquor teaches you to confuse the means with the end

When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they don't really know what they mean.

Lo que hace la literatura es lo mismo que una cerilla en medio de un campo en mitad de la noche. Una cerilla no ilumina apenas nada, pero nos permite ver cuánta oscuridad hay a su alrededor.

All right. What do you want me to do?' 'Go out there and look at him,' Lucas said. 'Go out where and look at who?' he said. But he understood all right. It seemed to him that he had known all the time what it would be; he thought with a kind of relief So that's all it is even while his automatic voice was screeching with outraged disbelief: 'Me? Me?

?ovjek! Ljudi! Propustit ?e stotinu dobrih prilika samo da se upetlja ondje gdje ga nitko ne traži. Propustit ?e i ne?e opaziti prilike da stekne bogatstvo, slavu ili u?ini neko dobro djelo, a katkada, možda, i zlo. Ali nikada ne?e propustiti da se ne upetlja ondje gdje ga ne treba.

I says to myself it's a good thing her eyes are giving out