Quotes About Clarity

First I have a think, and then I put a line around it.

Thou art figured blind, and yet we borrow our best sight from thee.

The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see.

You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

More matter with less art.

If thou art wise, incline to truth; for truth, not the semblance, remains in its place.

A picture might be worth a thousand words but a good sentence is worth a thousand windows

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

All art does but consist in the removal of surplusage.

Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.

Programming is the art of writing essays in crystal clear prose and making them executable

In both metaphysics and art, honesty is the best policy. Keep it clean.

Grey has no agenda. . . . Grey has the ability, that no other colour has, to make the invisible visible.

The same person is coming through in a different medium.... My art is simple, direct and definite.

Formal art is essentially rational.

Mathematics is only the art of saying the same thing in different words.

The proper use of commas is often more art than science.

I don't want to see any art-writing gobbledygook or overblown words in an essay about me. If a smaller, simpler word will do - use it.

As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.

The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.

...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.

Apologies are the art of spiritual housekeeping. They help to put and keep our lives in order.

Sometimes it's good to get mad, sometimes it clarifies where we stand. I think that art has the ability to challenge and push, and that's great. That's better than great... it's necessary.

I used to believe in the pretty pictures that were all around me, but now I know for sure that I was stupid.