Hank Stram Quotes

Complexity excites the mind, and order rewards it. In the garden, one finds both, including vanishingly small orders too complex to spot, and orders so vast the mind struggles to embrace them.

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

I think complexity is beautiful.

My life won't be a series of either/ors - musician or actor, rock or country, straitlaced or rebellious, this or that, yes or no. The real choices in life aren't that simple.

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

Like in nature, I like things which are based on a few simple principles, even though their manifestation can be very rich.

Extreme complication is contrary to art.

Everything man is doing in architecture is to try to go against nature. Of course we have to understand nature to know how far we have to go against nature. The secret, I think, of the future is not doing too much. All architects have the tendency to do too much.

I feel I need a lot of contrast, so I have all these things happening, but they're all necessary to make me feel satisfied. It's got to be this big pot happening, with everything boiling at once.

In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

You can drain the life and nuances and complexity out of things by homogenizing them to make everything harmoniously dull, flat, conflict-free, strife-free.

Strike the right balance between your outfit and makeup. Make a statement with one, not both.

Life mixes tones all the time.

Not everyone necessarily needs new things all the time and creative designs. It's good to have luxury restaurants and fast-food restaurants. You need both.

With everything I do, I strive for a balance of tone, where it's not just one thing.

I love to have contrast.

In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle.

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

Life has never been All or Nothing- it's All and Nothing. Forget the binaries.

As the saying goes, it takes all kinds to make the world go around, though perhaps some shouldn't go quite so far around it as others.

It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated.

You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions.

Life is made up of marble and mud.