I can't say with certitude.
We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.
I'm never confident about anything, especially with law.
Agnostics are just atheists without balls.
Assuredly of all earthly conditions uncertainty is the most unblest.
That is the wearisome part of business - there is no peace, no sense of certain, permanent achievement, no stability. The unexpected, and usually the awful, is forever happening.
When we speak of the morrow nothing is ever certain.
Most of us go through life praying a little, planning a little, jockeying for position, hoping but never being quite certain of anything, and always secretly afraid that we will miss the way. This is a tragic waste of truth and never gives rest to the heart.
It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present before our eyes, we have never been less certain about what is ahead of us.
I think men don't know what they want, so the idea of not knowing what they're getting makes it a little easier on them.
As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play.
