Obscurity Quotes

193 Obscurity quotes by 167 unique authors

It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code... obscurity is usually the refuge of… — Robert A. Heinlein
Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world. — Nicolas Chamfort
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity. — Quintilian
How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity. — Plautus
There are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities, in an elaborate and well-written piece of nonsense, than in the most abstruse and profound… — Joseph Addison
He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well. — Unknown Author
Critics should help people see for themselves; they should never try to define things, or impose their own explanations, though I admit that if... a… — Georges Braque
To be sure an artist wishes to raise his standard intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain in obscurity. Pleasure must be… — Paul Cezanne
Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is… — Nelson Goodman
The spirit is often concealed within matter to such an extent that few people are generally capable of perceiving it. — Wassily Kandinsky
A lot of us have all sorts of ideas, and we select some rather than others and give expression to those... and some works of… — Rupert Sheldrake
Art will never come except from some small disregarded corner where an isolated and inspired man is studying the mysteries of nature. — Jean-Francois Millet
Artspeak is an arcane writing style that can result in a vocabulary of obscurities... Today, some of the more spectacular examples are in artist's statements. — Robert Genn
Obscurity is the realm of error. — Luc de Clapiers
There is value in long years of obscurity, if one doesn't go insane or suicidal, in that, simply because nobody is looking, the habit of… — Jules Olitski
Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity. — Bill Vaughan
Don't be a writer, it's a terrible way to live your life, there's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude.… — Paul Auster
My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language. — Edward Gibbon
Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity could just as… — James Fenton
Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity. — Thomas Hardy

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