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Quotes About Clarity

If you really understand something, you can: 1) explain it using a clear metaphor and 2) explain the strongest counter-argument to the idea.
~ Ben Casnocha
If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
~ Larry Wall
If you can't reduce your argument to a few crisp words and phrases, there's something wrong with your argument.
~ Maurice Saatchi
When people say "clearly" something that means there's a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren't clear at all.
~ Terry Pratchett
More words ain't good for anything in the world only to bring on more argument.
~ Will Rogers
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.
~ Colin Powell
If someone tells me that I've hurt their feelings, I say, 'I'm still waiting to hear what your point is.
~ Christopher Hitchens
The fog of illusion, the fog of confusion is hanging all over the world.
~ Van Morrison
I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures.
~ Gerhard Richter
Vipassana is the art of living. Not the art of escaping.
~ S. N. Goenka
Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.
~ C. S. Lewis
With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find.
~ Dan Flavin
Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.
~ Carl Andre
There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
You see what you know!
~ Frank Stella
The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.
~ Unknown
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
~ Ansel Adams
Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.
~ Paul Klee
The usefulness of the cup is its emptiness.
~ Bruce Lee
Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, the beautiful in art.
~ George Sand
Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
~ Samuel Beckett
An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way
~ Charles Bukowski
I used language because I wanted to offer content that people - not necessarily art people - could understand.
~ Jenny Holzer