You can go to the moon or walk under the sea, or anything else you like, but painting remains painting because it eludes such investigation. It remains there like a question. And it alone gives the answer.
When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.
That's the $64,000 question. And I would love to tell you there was an answer.
The trickiest thing about the double bind is that it operates imperceptibly, like shots from a gun with a silencer.
Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.
But what is truth? 'Twas Pilate's question put To Truth itself, that deign'd him no reply.
We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.
And do you accept the idea that there is no explanation?
How can a question be answered that asks a lifetime of questions.
Well, it's not so easy to give an answer when you ask a stupid question!
What a haunting, inescapable riddle life was.
For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist.
Richard was a riddle with no answer, and I was tired of playing a game I couldn't win.
Naming my favorite books feels like naming a favorite child - impossible.
