#bsc

In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene. ↗

— Robert Bresson

#nude #obscene

A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water. ↗

— James Buchan

#almost #call #century #commodity #existence

I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on? ↗

— David Byrne

#comes #creativity #draw #fixed #i

Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#away #because #change #dream #duties

No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#duty #escape #mind #obscurity #questioning

Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#clearer #i #i am #made #may

Hardship makes the world obscure. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#makes #obscure #world

A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#fifty #good #obscure #years

If you want music that speaks to you, that LISTENS to you, you have to go out of your way, which I enjoy actually. I'm constantly on a private-eye kick to find the totally obscure. ↗

— Trevor Dunn

#constantly #enjoy #find #go #i

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#dared #great #great men #had #men