Andre Aciman Quotes

Whatever you say it is, it isn't.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

Tone is up for grabs in what we do - what's the tone of the scene.

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.

There is no standard for truth. We cannot even agree on the meaning of words.

Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different.

Reality isn't straightforward or easily accessible.

Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.

It is a matter of perspective, the difference between opponent and partner," Tsukiko says. "You step to the side and the same person can be either or both or something else entirely. It is difficult to know which face is true.

Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.

Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it.

Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?

I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.

Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither.

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

There are always two or three or four sides to every story.

There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

As I said before, there are often disagreements as to what a particular set of facts mean. That is not at all unusual, and one shouldn't read into it more than is there.

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.

When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.

All good art, to me, is uncertainty.

What we don't understand we can make mean anything.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.