People usually complain that music is so ambiguous, and…

People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words.…

— Felix Mendelssohn

I want the music to be ambiguous. Its tone gives you a context in which to start visualizing what you're feeling with the music.

— Glenn Branca

My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.

— Odilon Redon

What I've learnt about artists over the years is, artists are usually the opposite to their music.

— Marina and the Diamonds

Redundancy is ambiguous because it seems like a waste if nothing unusual happens. Except that something unusual happens-usually .

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Happiness can be bought with a bottle of wine and has become ambiguous through overuse.

— Anonymous

I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look ambiguous because…

— Annie Lennox

Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it or you don't. You can't…

— Heinrich Böll

Wave particle duality is a core feature of our world. Or rather, we should say, it is a core feature of our mathematical descriptions…

— Margaret Wertheim

Words are such gross machinery, so primitive and ambiguous.

— Frank Herbert

Somehow, in the novel format, I don't really like to do upfront, ideological discussion. In my heart, literature remains a poetic and ambiguous medium.…

— Xiaolu Guo

Photography appears to be an easy activity; in fact it is a varied and ambiguous process in which the only common denominator among its…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

I want each poem to be ambiguous enough that its meaning can shift, depending on the reader's own frame of reference, and depending on…

— James Arthur

“In general we are reminded that the word heimlich is not unambiguous, but belongs to two sets of ideas, which, without being contradictory, are…

— Sigmund Freud

Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species- back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire…

— Daniel Dennett