Ambiguity Quote by Kirk Varnedoe

“...reduction is precisely what a work of art opposes. Easy answers...annotations, arrows...an oudine of its design...very seriously mislead.”

— William H. Gass

“Art actually happens somewhere in the space between clarity and ambiguity, concept and intuition, thought and feeling.”

— Bert Dodson

“If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps…

— Alain de Botton

You’re getting rid of the things that people used to think were essential to art. But that reduction is only incidental. I object to…

— Donald Judd

“What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see?”

— Andre Dubus

“Art indeed may not change anything, and yet on some very basic level, life is insupportable without it.”

— Richard Matturro

“We intuitively reject art when the cost to make it is less than the cost to buy it.”

— Elizabeth Hyde Stevens

“Nothing could be less conducive to reaching an art-work than critical remarks:it's always simply a matter of more or less fortunate misunderstandings. Everything cannot…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Art is precisely that condition which pertains when, after all analysis and reduction to parts has taken place, there remains a 'quality' which is…

— Douglas Portway

“Science seeks to understand complex processes by reducing them to their essential actions and studying the interplay of those actions--and this reductionist approach extends…

— Eric Kandel

“We make art. We do not feel the need to cut things apart to see what they're made of.”

— Holly Black

The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science.

— Anonymous