Gavin Bryars Quotes

The truth won't stay hidden and will come out.

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

Time and events bring out the truth, but they also deal a mortal blow.

Things can’t be kept secret forever.

Truth will come to light; murder cannot be hid long.

The Truth, sometimes not sought for, comes forth to the light.

If you are going to try and hide something, sooner or later people are going to find out.

I've laid my friends bare.

There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.

It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light.

There is nothing which is secret save it shall be revealed; there is no work of darkness save it shall be made manifest in the light; and there is nothing which is sealed upon the earth save it shall be loosed.

It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.

Layer by layer art strips life bare.

Veiling truth in mystery.

Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.

Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.

Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

Make my breast transparent as pure crystal, that the world, jealous of me, may see the foulest thought my heart does hold.

I like deconstructing things. I like cutting the legs out from under something that feels secret.

You have to strip people of their poses and disguises.

I know that you cannot banish the truth permanently, you can only cloud it temporarily.

Are you not aware that there comes a midnight hour when everyone must unmask...

Since nothing is so secret or hidden that it cannot be revealed, everything depends on the discovery of those things that manifest the hidden.

The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.