Lao Tzu Quotes

I am about as detailed as a shadow.

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

Everything in life is gray, you know.

The way I write, words can means lots of different things.

The thing about metaphors is that, if you give them away, you give away the mystery.

Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.

We like love - we love love - but perhaps its only meaning lies in its ubiquitous meaninglessness. We apprehend it, we feel it, and we think we know it, yet we cannot say what we mean by it.

I can give you a definite perhaps.

My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable.

The ambassador was never present, but his presence was never absent.

I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.

A lot of my work is about what's abstract and what's pictorial. Is it bubblegum, or is it an abstract painting using bubblegum? The energy comes from walking that line and watching things dip this way and that.

Be obscure clearly.

A nothing will serve just as well as a something about which nothing could be said.

There are gray areas in everything.

The Cube is, at the same time, a symbol of simplicity and complexity.

Basically, I really love work that puts the reader into a kind of vertigo, into a real doubt, and a beautiful way to convey that, a really perfect metaphor for that, is to make the reader also experience doubt.

That sometimes clear ... and sometimes vague stuff ... which is ... mathematics.

There is no rigorous definition of rigor.

I like to keep the meanings in my work flowing and open.

We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!

From the metaphysical point of view there is nothing that can touch the formless except the art of music which in itself is formless.

People are concrescences of ambiguity.

Don't bother Me with promises. Vows are cheaply manufactured, come with no guarantees. Don't bother to say you love me. The word is indefinable. Joy to some, heartbreak to others, depending on circumstance. There is evidence that the emotion can make a person live longer, evidence it can kill you early. I think it's akin to a deadly disease. Or at least some exotic fever. Catch it, and you'd better, quick, swallow some medication to use as a weapon against the fire ravaging body and soul.

As there was never any question there was never any answer.