James Lapine Quotes

It's as simple as something that nobody knows.

I'm a walking, talking enigma.

It's a disease we have that we think that everything is explainable. It's a merchandising idea because you can sell explanations and cures for everything, but it doesn't work like that. It's very hard to understand everything.

The more you know about Bob Dylan, the less you know. A truly enigmatic artist, Mr. Dylan's work and life offer vaporous handholds, explanations, and instructions. Attempt to grasp them, and they will only dissipate and re-form into another contexture or idea.

Art is a mystery. A mystery is something immeasurable.

The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.

It's good to be difficult to know. Too many people are too easy to know.

I have never thought of my life as being an enigma.

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.

I have surreal dreams, so much so that I can never make head nor tail of them.

Golf tough guys - like movie tough guys - are almost always inscrutable, just beyond our full understanding.

Your trouble is, you keep trying to unscrew the unscrutable.

Some things were beyond understanding.

What finally is beauty? Certainly nothing that can be calculated or measured. It is always something imponderable, something that lies between things.

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.

Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content.

Something unknown is doing we don't know what.

I just find P.J. Harvey so mesmerising to watch because she remains unfathomable. She is the kind of woman who makes you rue the day you weren't born her. She always seems to be the cat that walks alone, and you don't feel you are supposed to know her.

I've always had an air of mystery.

Abraham Lincoln worked hard at being inscrutable. The tones, the gestures, the kindling eye, and the mirth-provoking look defy the reporter's skill.

When you can't put your finger on it, that's the most exciting stuff.

To reasoned people, almost everything is understandable, but evil is forever incomprehensible.

What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.

I always loved bands with mystique.

A lot of people say I am very mysterious. It takes a lot to know me.