Quotes About Clarity

I want to say, she begins again, I want to say that I have not always tried hard enough to know. That this 'moral compass' Claire talks about may not have been as helpful in my own personal life as it was in the wider political context. Sometimes it is easier to see clearly from a distance. And what is up close -- what is up close -- she falters -- is harder to make out. In the audience someone coughs. There is so much gray between the black and the white ... and this is where most of us live.

Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it's tuna, but it says 'Chicken by the Sea.

Dumb is just not knowing. 'Ditzy' is having the courage to ask!

Any pile of stunted growth unaware that entertainment is just that and nothing more deserves to doom themselves to some dank cell somewhere for having been so stupid!! Movies, books, T.V., music - they're all just entertainment, not guidebooks for damning yourself!

If I want to understand what moves me, what confuses me, what pains me—everything that makes me react, in short—I have to put it into words.

So that she began to see herself more clearly, as a thin film of dust was wiped from a sheet of glass.

Why, as an adult, as a writer, am I interested in this new relationship with imperfection? What does it offer me? I would say a stunning clarity, a more profound self-awareness. Imperfection inspires invention, imagination, creativity. It stimulates. The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive.

Direi una chiarezza sbalorditiva, una consapevolezza piú profonda di me stessa. L'imperfezione dà lo spunto all'invenzione, all'immaginazione, alla creatività. Stimola. Più mi sento imperfetta, più mi sento viva.

It is this quality, the power of seeing order in apparent confusion, that has marked the work of all great men.

Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see. It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out. It doesn't matter much to me.

I work better the more I am confined and the less I am distracted. My ultimate place would be a closet.

I didn't want it to have any technical virtuosity; I wanted it to just be really clear how it was made. For my work in general, it's always really clear how it is made.

It takes me a long time to understand my work myself, so I name them in the order that they're created.

Don't say yes until I've finished talking. - Attributed to many Hollywood executives Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone.

The way that I work is very specific, very thorough, and the process has to be totally clear.

Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?

The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can.

The best essays come from the moment in which people really need to work something out.

Let me tell so much truth. I want to tell the truth in my work. The truth will lead me to all.

My work is to be honest. My work is to try to think clearly, then have the courage to make sure that what I say is the truth.

I would never put a sculpture in front of a painting, so that it is difficult to see the painting. I always place each thing so you can see it isolated. You can focus on every individual work.

I've taken away everything I could think of, and yet what remains is enough. These days many more people come to my work, and once they see my work they will always recognize it.

In fact, sometimes when I look at something my memory does work. I remember the panel where Alex Toth told me, "Mike, if you really don't understand all that, you don't need to put it on there."