one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.
If you have to ask what it symbolizes, it didn't.
I never understood a word John Cassavetes said. And I think he did that deliberately.
I only like people to know what I want them to know. People didn't know what Tupac was doing. That's why he was so iconic.
I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself
I think that was very important to Bacon... personally. I think he went to great efforts to get a house for the Stratford man, to make it so difficult for us to prove that it was Francis Bacon, because it is very difficult to prove.
If I had a bookstore I would make all the mystery novels hard to find.
How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.
I am never needlessly obscure - I am needfully obscure, when I am obscure.
It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.
I always want people to be confused, to be shocked or realize something later.
