Per Petterson

There is always this quarrel about what is preferable: the straight, naturalistic, epic storytelling or the modernistic, disjointed, slightly hermetic one. To me it does not matter, as long as it's good. I like both kinds. Although the common reader seems to prefer the first, which is to be expected, and who would blame her?

Norwegian Novelist

Toby Jones

They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director's imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground.

English Actor

Joseph Brodsky

The charge frequently leveled against poetry - that it is difficult, obscure, hermetic and whatnot - indicates not the state of poetry but, frankly, the rung of the evolutionary ladder on which society is stuck.

American Poet

Sebastian Horsley

I keep the shutters closed because I like to work in a hermetic environment. I like mirrors. When you look out of the window, all you see is ugliness, but when you look in the mirror all you see is beauty.

British Artist

Isabel Allende

I think that any writer who is commercial, who sells a lot of books, has to face criticism. Because the more hermetic and the more difficult your book is, supposedly it's better.

Chilean Writer

Lia Ices

I can be super reclusive and hermetic, and then I can be in California and host dinner parties and drink wine. It's all me.

American Musician

Irving Howe

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

American Historian

Manu Chao

What 'Clandestino' is talking about is problems of borders, and more and more hermetic borders all around the world.

Spanish Musician

John Perry Barlow

Most scientific revelations happened after the pursuit of knowledge quit being secret and hermetic.

American Writer

David Cage

I am afraid I am totally hermetic to social games in general.

French Designer

The term emphasizes an absolute seal, without any leaks.

Absolute Seal

Hermetic sealing is key for long-term storage of food or materials.

Preservation Quality

It is often used in technical contexts like engineering or science.

Technical Context

Describes someone's choice to live without contact from society.

Extreme Privacy

Sometimes references esoteric practices, like alchemy or mysticism.

Cultural Reference

Used figuratively, to suggest a sense of being cut off.

Not Literal

Implies information is intentionally obscure or kept within a select group.

Exclusive Knowledge

Often used to describe texts or theories that are intentionally complex.

Difficult Texts

Can be a polite way of saying something is overly complicated or hard to grasp.

Intellectual Challenge

 that art should live in a hermetic bubble and should not try and do anything with this troubled world I couldn't disagree more the other thing that we believe is that art shouldn't explain itself that artists shouldn't say what they're up to because if they said it they might destroy the spell and we might be you know we might find it too easy that's why a very common

Atheism 2.0 - Alain de...

 The two really bad ideas that are hovering in the modern world that inhibit our capacity to draw strength from The first idea is that art should be for art's sake -- a ridiculous idea -- an idea that art should live in a hermetic bubble