Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.

Everything is simpler than one can imagine, and yet complicated and inter-twined beyond comprehension.

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

For everything that you find dreadful, there's usually something that is rather marvelous as well.

Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.

I think the best-written films or television series have a measure of the opposite of what they are.

When I define polarities in my work, I actually create the space between things. I point to the question I am actually interested in, without naming it.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Everything in life is gray, you know.

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'

Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them.

I guess I found it useful to realise that everything is true at once, you know? You can pull back and say, 'Everything will be fine,' but you can also be in a situation and say, 'Not everything is going to be fine.'

I don't think there are in life, pure darkness or pure light. Everyone's got a little of everything.

I'm nothing more than what you actually see, but I am also the complete opposite.

Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox... It's both things, like quantum physics: It's a particle and a wave at the same time. It all exists all together.

Two seemingly incompatible conceptions can each represent an aspect of the truth ... They may serve in turn to represent the facts without ever entering into direct conflict.

Even a sheet of paper has two sides.

Terrible saloons might be, but they may be terribly wonderful.

Life is weird and complex but very simple at the same time. It's all about perception.

The Cube is, at the same time, a symbol of simplicity and complexity.

I like things that are over the top and subtle at the same time.

There's light and dark in all things, you know?

It took me a long time to learn both good and bad can exist simultaneously.

I think architecture becomes interesting when it has a double character, that is, when it is as simple as possible but, at the same time as complex as possible