I get interested in writers who are enigmatic.

Content to me is very important, but I like it when [the photograph] is also enigmatic. If you don't know what it is you…

— John Gutmann

Kate Bernheimer's fiction offers a unique and delicate gift, the tempting mirage of a grace that constantly escapes. The Complete Tales of Merry Gold…

— Lydia Millet

His face was in my neck and he was breathing hard. Was he grieving me? Already? Would he miss me? Had I, in some…

— Karen Marie Moning

“Why do people want to talk to each other? I mean, what are the things people always want to find out about other people?”

— Shirley Jackson

They wanted Bridgette to be this extremely enigmatic character. Im about the least enigmatic person on the planet, so I just thought what I…

— Margot Kidder

“The Rabbit started violently, dropped the white kid gloves and the fan, and scurried away into the darkness as hard as he could go.”

— Lewis Carroll

Sometimes I think I am going mad. I live for days in the mystery and tears of things so that the commonest object, the…

— W.N.P. Barbellion

Most pioneers are at the mercy of doubt at the beginning, whether of their worth, of their theories, or of the whole enigmatic field…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The smudging makes the paintings a bit more complete. When they're not blurred, so many details seem wrong, and the whole thing is wrong…

— Gerhard Richter

There are many artists that I know exactly where they are born and what their names are and where they live, which are still…

— Tobias Forge

I heard Joby Talbot's Hovercraft piece for orchestra and felt its immediate physical impact - visceral, unsettling, hungry and direct. These short five minutes…

— Wayne McGregor

Gregorius was never to forget this scene. They were his first Portuguese words in the real world and they worked. That words could cause…

— Pascal Mercier

When I think about my own work, there usually is one or the other light bulb moment where there is this flash of insight.…

— Ken Ono

What passes for love is imperfect knowledge. Not knowing, initially, allows faithlessness to dress up as its opposite; casts the inarticulate as enigmatic, the…

— Nick Laird

I'm well aware that I have been described in some quarters as being 'enigmatic, taciturn, prickly, explosive and forbidding'. Well, I have my moods…

— Harold Pinter