Quotes About Clarity

Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.

For me, the poetry in a work is that which makes visible the invisible.

Teamwork is the ability to work as a group toward a common vision, even if that vision becomes extremely blurry.

Work very very hard. This business is no joke. Make sure you know what you want or you might be taking someone else's view instead of your own.

To a clear eye the smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be seen.

Think clearly, act sensibly, commit yourself to caring and work hard in order to discover joy. Then give the images back to the world from which they were taken.

The ability to work hard and make sacrifices comes naturally to those who know exactly what they want.

Just do it. Get it down on the page. Work hard. And then let go. Ask yourself why you want to write. You have to be clear about that.

Owain told me about the beautiful, fair-haired Vesta. It took me several minutes to work out that Vesta was a horse, and that Owain was possibly in love with her.

For a solo work I need a definite idea. For the present I have none.

The paradox of simplicity is that making things simpler is hard work.

So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.

I'd tried enough to know that anything long term wasn't going to work.

Songwriting is like working on a jigsaw puzzle, and it doesn't make any sense until you find that last piece. It has to make sense or it doesn't work.

I don't know how to explain it." "Try words. If that doesn't work, we'll move on to interpretive dance.

It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees.

Some consider the puzzles that are created by their omissions as spicy challenges, without which their texts would be boring; others shun clarity lest their work is considered trivial.

My 'work' is about seeing not about ideas.

Anytime I write something that's trying to be too smart, it doesn't work.

I work very hard to achieve simplicity, which is never natural, never spontaneous. It's always obtained at the price of a great effort.

Eventually you're supposed to get so confounded by this whole thing that you just give up completely, and that's when it starts to work. Not give up the practice, but give up trying to figure it out.

I know that the emotional narrative will work in the end, and I just have to play each moment honestly even if the getting from A to B doesn't totally make sense initially.

Too much verbal stimulation causes the work to suffer.

Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.