William Hogarth Quotes

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.

I never wanted to get caught in doing something that was really one note.

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.

The multiplicity of ideas is what I'm interested in.

You can't just play the same thing, over and over again.

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

There are literally as many ideas as there are organisms.

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.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.

My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.

I guess I get bored easily, and thank God. I don't want to all my life pound only the same key, although some artists do it very effectively. I'm not trying to denigrate anybody.

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.

Uniformity is not very interesting or sustainable - it's boring.

One can become drab, dull, and boring doing the same thing every day. Writing helps break the monotony.

Doing different things is great. It's always good to change things up. If you do the same thing over and over, it can get boring.

Keeping your lives as varied as possible is a good thing.

There are only five notes in the musical scale, but their variations are so many that they cannot all be heard. There are only five basic colors, but their variations are so many that they cannot all be seen. There are only five basic flavors, but their variations are so many that they cannot all be tasted. There are only two kinds of charge in battle, the unorthodox surprise attack and the orthodox direct attack, but variations of the unorthodox and the orthodox are endless. The unorthodox and the orthodox give rise to each other, like a beginningless circle-who could exhaust them?

There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.There are not more than five primary colors, yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen.There are not more than five cardinal tastes, yet combinations of them yield more flavors than can ever be tasted.

The lesson about food is that the most predictable and the most orderly outcomes are always not the best. They are just easier to describe. Fads are orderly. Food carts and fires aren't. Feeding the world could be a delicious mess, full of diverse flavors and sometimes good old-fashioned smoke.

I try my best to find variety in what I'm doing, but there's a lot out there that's the same.

I hate a style, as I do a garden, that is wholly flat and regular; that slides along like an eel, and never rises to what one can call an inequality.

You're encouraged to do the same kind of movies. But I would like to keep doing different things.

For me, my criteria for making films is all about trying to do something different from the last time. So if I catch myself doing too much of one thing, I'm always trying to move away from that, because it's not going to be challenging enough to keep my attention and focus.

It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.