Masterpiece Quote by Kenneth Oppel

“Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to perfect truth.”

— Charles Ives

“I’m trying now to exaggerate the essence of things, and to deliberately leave vague what’s obvious.”

— Vincent Van Gogh

“His thoughts were too vague to be described, but they comprehended mysterious elements.”

— Frank Herbert

“Once, probably, I used to think that vagueness was a loftier kind of poetry, truer to the depths of consciousness, and maybe when I…

— Don DeLillo

“To young, inexperienced minds there seems to be a kind of fatal charm about the vague, the distant, and the mysterious.”

— Booker T. Washington

“A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one.”

— Carl Sandburg

“artist, thinker, blurter of brilliance Many”

— Jen Sincero

“When one's thoughts and experience have not reached a certain point for reading a masterpiece, the masterpiece will leave only a bad flavor on…

— Lin Yutang

“You only demand clarity because you’re too comfortable within your vagueness”

— Albert Camus

“Slightly surreal, so private, so obscure That critics classify his work as 'pure' Because, in digging through the endless chatter They can't discern what…

— R.S. Gwynn

“clarity is a precious thing, to the degree it can be achieved, if only because it can spare us the effort of needless boring…

— David Bentley Hart

“What does the novel do? It tells beautiful, shapely lies which enclose hard, exact truths.”

— Julian Barnes