Gertrude Stein Quotes

When things are too clear, they are no longer interesting.

Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine

The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose.

Everything is more complicated than it looks to most people.

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

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

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

Ironic things are interesting.

The dumber the thing is, the more excitement I get from imagining a very complex world of truth around it.

...everything looks worse in black and white.

It is not at all simple to understand the simple.

What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood.

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

The opposite of coherent is interesting.

It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

I heard that a lot and I just sort of thought, the world was an even more interesting place than the people who were making the decisions were perhaps interpreting it to be.

If even rock was interesting, if even this ugliness was worth whole shelves at the library, required sophisticated tools to study, and inspired grown men to crack mountains and saw crystals--then what wasn't?

When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.

I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.

Nothing's that simple, not even things that are simply awful.

I understand that we are actually complicated people but we are also dreadfully simple.

The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.

There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described.

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

Everything seems simpler from a distance.