Borns Quotes

All good art, to me, is uncertainty.

Somebody once said to me, 'If you want to be understood, don't write fiction.'

I once said to a boy, ‘You’re a really good kisser,’ and he said, ‘You’re only as good as the person you’re kissing.' I think it’s the same with the music. If someone [says], ‘Your music is really provocative,’ I’m only as provocative as the person that’s listening to it.

My pictures are complex and so am I. When I am almost symbolistic in writing, there is a more limiting difference’s of accepting, while I can be even more complex in the photographs and people can usually accept them within the framework of their own limitations or lack of limitations – there is no dictionary meaning… they can look up for the photographic image and allow it to confuse them.

I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions.

My films are like clouds: their meaning keeps changing every minute.

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It's better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it's a very personal thing, and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for somebody else.

It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.

If someone stands in front of one of my paintings and says, 'This is just a mess', the word 'just' is not so good, but 'mess' might be right. Why not a mess? If it makes you say, 'Wow, I've never seen anything like that', that's beautiful.

What we don't understand we can make mean anything.

If you can even manage to tell exactly what a song is about, all you do is put that song in a box forever, and it loses its evocative power.

If you judge everything by how photographically real it looks, then you're missing out on a lot of what art is about and what communication is. There are ambiguities in life, and that should be reflected in art, cinema, and storytelling, I think.

I never quite know if what I do will be understood.

Words are slippery and thoughts are vicious.

Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.

There's always a message in my music, you just gotta be able to just sit there and be open-minded.

It is important to consider that the horror movies should - like modern art - not have a too obvious meaning. When you watch them, it is more important what you feel than what you understand.

Art is supposed to hold up a mirror to its audience and ask, 'What do you believe? What do you think? What do you feel?' and if you look at a painting and it makes you feel nothing, that's a feeling as well.

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

Yet it was very difficult to separate her interpretation, and keep it distinct from his meaning.

Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear

Take it in what sense thou wilt.

I get a lot of people complaining about my ambiguity, often in cases which there is nothing ambigous at all. As far as I can see, people read it when they were half stoned and listening to the TV. Then they come back and say gee, it's impossible to figure out what's going on in a story.