Regina Spektor Quotes

The simpler the message, the broader the meaning, in many respects.

I knew lots of Irish ladies in my life who would say daft things and then would just say something incredibly truthful in a very simple way with simple language - a few well chosen words that would take an intellectual five minutes to express. I like that.

The world is what it is, no less and no more, and therein lies its entire and sufficient meaning.

The key to all knowledge comes in words of just one syllable, apparently.... There's only the last page left to write on. I'll fill it with words of just one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.

To ask the hard question is simple.

there is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars.

Everything seems simpler from a distance.

Simple is the language of truth.

A five-year old is in a pretty good position to assess who is beautiful and who is not. Removed from the confusions of sexuality, he or she can judge a face as a face.

The simpler the insight, the more profound the conclusion.

Truth is no rounder than a horse's eye.

To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!

Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.

They see poetry in what I have done. No. I apply my methods, and that is all there is to it.

The writer's first job is not to have opinions but to tell the truth... and refuse to be an accomplice of lies and misinformation. Literature is the house of nuance and contrariness against the voices of simplification.

I feel there’s no need to overstate.

sometimes the most simple conclusion is also the most correct

I try not to be spectacular with the camera. I try to be a witness of what's going on.

The usefulest truths are the plainest.

The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature.

I presume my work has also always been about reduction without any distraction or after effects, outside emotions, or intimacy or complicity with the subject.

The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.

If I can write one sentence, simple and true every day, I'll be satisfied.

I am a simple man and I want simple answers.