Art Quote by Nicolas Chamfort

Few authors understand themselves, and a proper reader must not only understand his author but also be able to see beyond him

— Johann Georg Hamann

He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The public, too, has to make an effort in order to understand the writer who, though he renounce complacent obscurity, cannot always express his…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.

— Hugh Kingsmill

“Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus little effort is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Clarity of thought will normally produce clarity of style; obscurity of thought will produce obscurity of style.”

— Bernard Lewis

“The bond between book reader and book writer has always been a tightly symbiotic one, a means of intellectual and artistic cross-fertilization. The words…

— Nicholas Carr

“Readers often feel they know an author because they’ve read their books. To a degree, this is often true. We write from our individual…

— Cheryl St.John

Spero Speroni explains admirably how an author who writes very clearly for himself is often obscure to his readers. "It is," he says, "because…

— Nicolas Chamfort

The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists - even of the fact…

— Ford Madox Ford

“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

That's what in theory differentiates a writer from everyone else. You see and hear more clearly.

— Don DeLillo