Creative Enigma Quotes

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.

All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.

To be honest, I don't know how comedy works.

Love is a mystery which, when solved, evaporates. The same holds for music.

Art as a whole is a riddle. Another way of putting this is to say that art expresses something while at the same time hiding it.

Abstract expression is so solid, so successful and recognizable, but there's a mystery about the artists that goes into it, a fetishism about the artists themselves and who they were.

But, for me, I'm such a complex person with so many different facets and so much depth that asking me the same question twice seems almost unfair to the reader. I'm going to die a mystery already, so you want to find out as much about me as you can while I'm still here.

I've always loved the fact that Bob's [Dylan] been able to sustain his mystery over 50 or 60 years.

All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

I get interested in writers who are enigmatic.

The riddle of Mozart is precisely that "the man" refuses to be a key for solving it. In death, as in life, he conceals himself behind his work.

Music is only a mystery to people who want it explained. Music and love are the same.