Opaque Quotes

But nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency.

So she searches for light, only to realize it's in her, like an ember equipped to ignite.

The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.

In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear.

Businesses can be opaque. They are complex. You don't know how aircraft engines work either.

I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.

More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable.

We exist for ourselves, perhaps, and at times we even have a glimmer of who we are, but in the end we can never be sure, and as our lives go on, we become more and more opaque to ourselves, more and more aware of our own incoherence. No one can cross the boundary into another – for the simple reason that no one can gain access to himself.

The earth is heavy and opaque without dreams.

Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can't be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool.

...in our time art is encrusted with a noisy, opaque, logorrhea of theory that prevents a work from coming into direct, media free, non-interpreted contact with its viewer (its reader, its listener)

I perceive everything to be constantly subjective and strange. My version of truth in what I express, it feels like that opaque quality that you're talking about. It's just me being legitimate.

Art pierces opaque subjectivity, the not seeing of conventional life, and discloses reality.

The real nature of our predicament is completely opaque to us.

No one can cross the boundary into another -- for the simple reason that no one can gain access to himself

Our technologised society is becoming opaque. As technology becomes more ubiquitous and our relationship with digital devices ever more seamless, our technical infrastructure seems to be increasingly intangible.

Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a completely clear picture.

Life may be seen through many windows, none of them necessarily clear or opaque, less or more distorting than any of the others.

Self is the opaque veil that hides the face of God from us.

Things are opaque to us, and we are opaque to ourselves.

Before men we stand as opaque bee-hives. They can see the thoughts go in and out of us; but what work they do inside of a man they cannot tell. Before God we are as glass bee-hives, and all that our thoughts are doing within us he perfectly sees and understands.

...though one can be callous in Ireland one cannot be wholly opaque or material. An unearthly disturbance works in the spirit; reason can never reconcile one to life; nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.

I can't move my body slowly. I can't move the line slowly. So I end up with way too much, often opaque to me later.

It had long been established in the Civil Worlds that public business was to be transparent, and personal business opaque; but it was as well recognised that the two would always have a turbulent interface, and that the clique, the caucus, and the conspiracy were as ineradicable features of civility as the council or the committee.

When my own writing needs a perk, I open Zukofsky and read from "A" - particularly sections "22" and "23." It can be opaque, but I love the intensity.