#obscure

No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#biological #concept #condition #elucidated #evidence

As an artist, you're always somewhat obscure. We're not talking Hollywood. ↗

— Christian Marclay

#artist #hollywood #not talking #obscure #somewhat

Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language; because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#because #corresponding #difficult #greek #harmony

Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

#circle #every #his #narrow

Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear. ↗

— David Seabury

#complex #comradeship #intellectual #make #obscure

Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense. ↗

— Arthur Hays Sulzberger

#concentrating #generation #ignoring #immense #negative

Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them. ↗

— Constantin Brancusi

#formulas #god #i #joy #look

The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary. ↗

— Henry Miller

#communication #except #few #good #great

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. ↗

— Edward R. Murrow

#eventually #longer #obscure #obvious #see

I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs. ↗

— Sonny Rollins

#any #being #clubs #death #die