Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit

One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.

— Teju Cole

I am comfortable talking about sex scenes and stuff, but to me, when it's physically explicit, I do feel prudish and uncomfortable.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of…

— Benjamin Disraeli

“EXPLICIT LIBER REGIS QUONDAM REGIS FUTURI THE BEGINNING”

— T.H. White

It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit…

— Arthur Keith

Wherever you're from, you adapt to your environment. It definitely made my music a little bit more explicit. Because I really was in North…

— Lil Uzi Vert

For me, one of the most disturbing elements of the right wing's political agenda is that it believes that there is one correct spiritual…

— Barbra Streisand

He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most…

— Washington Irving

Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear, the fear…

— Bertrand Russell

Look at Mann's reading habits, his explicit comments on Nietzsche, and his copy of Birth of Tragedy, and it starts to seem doubtful that…

— Philip Kitcher

Perhaps the choice is a negative one, in that I was trying to avoid everything that touched on well-known issues - or any issues…

— Gerhard Richter

“Understanding dawned about the sequence of the last two lines, and with it came a sudden mental image of him doing that to me.…

— Jeaniene Frost

It is the first time since 1993 that Russians have come out into the streets without an explicit permission from the government to do…

— Masha Gessen

A great photograph needs no explanation; it functions by suggestion. There is no need to be explicit.

— Mary Ellen Mark

Philosophy attempts, not to discover new truths about the world, but to gain a clear view of what we already know and believe about…

— Michael Dummett