Deceptive Simplicity Quotes

What one has most to work and struggle for in painting is to do the work with a great amount of labour and sweat in such a way that it may afterward appear, however much it was laboured upon, to have been done almost quickly and almost without any labour, and very easily, although it was not.

It is not at all simple to understand the simple.

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

Even the most straightforward of paths could turn out to be more complicated than it seemd at first.

The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.

The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.

Making it look easy is the hardest thing in the world to do.

The Simple Life is not a simple life.

Sometimes the easiest-seeming stories to a reader are the hardest kind to write.

Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!

A world without any lies at all is not a good world, because it's artless and because there are no white lies, no flattery.

It takes a lot of effort to make a building look effortless.

The sun is simple. A sword is simple. A storm is simple. Behind everything simple is a huge tail of complicated.

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

Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty.

It is the simple hypotheses of which one must be most wary; because these are the ones that have the most chances of passing unnoticed.

On first blush, Hold 'em seems like a ridiculously simple game.

… steer clear of bogus simplicity

Chantal's only ruse ... was her shattering simplicity. While a weak man or an imposter is always more complicated than the problem he is trying to solve, and thinking to encompass his adversary, merely keeps prowling interminably around himself, the heroic nature will throw itself into the heart of the danger to turn it to its own use, just as captured artillery is turned about and aimed at the backs of the fleeing enemy.

Generally speaking, only simple conceptions can grip the mind of a nation. An idea that is clear and precise even though false will always have greater power in the world than an idea that is true but complex.

I'm surprised that the fight was kind of easy.

That is the core of Trump. He is undoubtedly an idiot, but do not underestimate how good he is at that.

The long words are not the hard words, it is the short words that are hard. There is much more metaphysical subtlety in the word "damn" than in the word "degeneration."

I love how deceptively simple 'love interest' is, you know? Because it encompasses quite a lot, when you think about it.

The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.