Artie Shaw Quotes

I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it.

Lady Gaga said to me, 'You showed me how it's done.' I have no idea what she meant by 'it.'

What we take anything to be profoundly affects how we go about describing it, and how we describe something profoundly affects how we go about explaining, accounting for, or understanding what is what we are, in a sense, defining, by our description.

when driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.

The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.

I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.

An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.

In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.

It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It's better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it's a very personal thing, and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for somebody else.

I don't feel it incumbent on me to make sense of everything.

Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.

Drop a word in the ocean of meaning and concentric ripples form. To define a single word means to try to catch those ripples. No one’s hands are fast enough.

Yeah. I mean, acknowledging is easy. Something happened or it didn't. But understanding... that's where things get sticky.

There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.

He's very nice. He's something I replied. She considered this zipping her purse shut. Then she said Well everyone is. Everyone is Something. For some reason that stuck with me simple and yet not every since she'd said it. It was like a puzzle as well two vague words with one clear one between them.

To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything.

What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood.

We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.

Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio. What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that nobodyasksme; but if Iamasked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled.

Explanations are clear but since no one to whom a thing is explained can connect the explanations with what is really clear, therefore clear explanations are not clear.

The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent

The Text is not a definitive object.

I love language, and I love the failure of language.