Complex Simplicity Quotes

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.

Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface.

It's all very simple. But maybe because it's so simple, it's also hard.

The simplest questions are the most difficult.

As soon as man seeks to penetrate the secrets of Nature--in which nothing is secret and it is but a question of seeing--he realizes that the simple produces the supernatural.

A simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear to be so.

I love films that are many things at the same time while being simple.

Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

The Simple Life is not a simple life.

Kant was probably the worst writer ever heard of on earth before Karl Marx. Some of his ideas were really quite simple, but he always managed to make them seem unintelligible. I hope he is in Hell.

... Philosophy proper is a subject, on the one hand so hopelessly obscure, on the other so astonishingly elementary, that there knowledge hardly counts.

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. -Aunt Beast

One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

The mind is an enchanting thing is an enchanted thing, like the glaze on a katydid-wing subdivided by sun till the nettings are legion.

I've learned that football is a stupid sport for intelligent people because the simplest things are truly also the most difficult to get right.

The Besicovitch style is architectural. He builds out of simply elements a delicate and complicated architectural structure, usually with a hierarchical plan, and then, when the building is finished, the completed structure leads by simple arguments to an unexpected conclusion. Every Besicovitch proof is a work of art, as carefully constructed as a Bach fugue.

What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.

In documentary films, the most difficult thing to achieve is to make something complex appear simple.

When I hear people who love my music and are trying to copy it, it sounds strange to me because it sounds so simple, made by other people. It took me a lot of years to find the balance, to find a way to be on the edge of being accessible but at the same time having the echo of a deep, more complex world.

I'm talking about intellectually and emotionally challenging, but at the same time it's actually not that challenging. So there's this dichotomy.

I like to use simple words, but in a complicated way.

The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.