Conceal Quotes

308 quotes by 245 authors

Reveal art; conceal the artist. — Gustave Flaubert
Combien de gens se font abstraits pour para?tre profonds! La plupart des termes abstraits sont des ombres qui cachent des vides. How many people become… — Joseph Joubert
Faith is the readiness to reveal whatever is concealed. You don't have to conceal doubts by putting on patches of self-confirmation. The readiness to be… — Chogyam Trungpa
Russia, Russia-unwashed, backward, appealing Russia, so ashamed of your own backwardness, so orientally determined to conceal it from us by clever deceit. — George F. Kennan
Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art. — Clement Greenberg
By silence, I hear other men's imperfections and conceal my own. — Zeno of Elea
The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and excites… — Henry Clay
The colours of insects and many smaller animals contribute to conceal them from the larger ones which prey upon them. Caterpillars which feed on leaves… — Erasmus Darwin
Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without… — Baldassare Castiglione
Shadow concealsâ€”light reveals. To know what to reveal and what to conceal, and in what degrees to do this, is all there is to art. — Josef von Sternberg
Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the… — Criss Jami
O, what nowadays does science not conceal! How much, at least, it is meant to conceal! — Friedrich Nietzsche
The very cunning conceal their cunning; the indifferently shrewd boast of it. — Christian Nestell Bovee
All confidence placed in another is dangerous if it is not perfect, for on almost all occasions we ought to tell everything or to conceal… — Jean de la Bruyere
Criticism discloses that which it would fain conceal, but conceals that which it professes to disclose; it is therefore, read by the discerning, not to… — Charles Caleb Colton
L'on a beau se cacher a'Â Â soi-me"Â me, l'on aime toujours. We vainly conceal from ourselves the fact that we are always in love. — Blaise Pascal
Talk can neither be verified nor falsified in any rigorous sense. This is an open secret which hermeneutics and aesthetics, from Aristotle to Croce, have… — George Steiner
Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself! — Confucius
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others. — Cyril Connolly
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened… — Charles Dickens

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