John Maeda Quotes

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

Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us.

I'm fascinated by the yin and yang of everything.

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

Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil. Therefore having and not having arise together. Difficult and easy complement each other. Long and short contrast each other. High and low rest upon each other. Voice and sound harmonize each other. Front and back follow one another.

I am the form and I am the hollow, the thrust and the contour

It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow.

Nothing to do with anything, something to do with everything.

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

I think of masculine and feminine energy like two sides to a battery. There's a plus side and a minus side, and in order to make something turn on, you need to have opposites touching. It's the same in relationships.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

I don't know why we work, my husband and I. We just do. We are black and white - yin and yang.

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

The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression.

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Will and I are yin and yang. He's all sky, vast and bright and soaring, and I'm all earth. I'm here to ground him, and he's here to help me fly.

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

We are the yin and the yang of the creative process.

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.

As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist.

Everybody's got that split between the beautiful and fragile, the hard and the dark.

I really like blending two things together that are polar opposites. Because I feel like, in a large aspect, that's kinda like what I am.

I've realised darkness and light are inter-dependent, just as death is an enhancer of life.