Quotes About Intricacy

Probably the most important element in intricacy is centering. Good small parks typically have a place somewhere within them commonly understood to be the center—at the very least a main crossroads and pausing point, a climax.

Every spot on earth is particular, detailed, and incomprehensibly complex.

Elegant writers depict intricacy with simplicity.

Businesses can be opaque. They are complex. You don't know how aircraft engines work either.

In a mouse we admire God's creation and craft work. The same may be said about flies.

I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.

I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?

For one invariable and distinguishing feature of all Italian regulations is that they are complicated.

You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him. He is never more present in my work than when no image of him is there. He is a suggestion, as I have said, of a new manner. I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.

The difference was in the details.

Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting.

It belonged, he knew—he remembered—as she pulled him down, to the meat, the flesh the cowboys mocked. It was a vast thing, beyond knowing, a sea of information coded in spiral and pheromone, infinite intricacy that only the body, in its strong blind way, could ever read.

is a body grown in upon itself, a Gothic folly.

Art Nouveau was coil-envy.

Oh, time," Dane said. "Time time time. Time's always a bit more fiddly than you reckon.

She was not sure how to pronounce his name, not even in her head would the sound make any sense. She had to look away to stop herself from making up more stories about him.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

A novel has a whispering complexity of insinuations.

We are several people fitted inside each other. Chinese boxes. Our bodies are the outside box. Or the inside one if you like.

The thick plottens.

neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.

They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?

The most fun characters to work with are characters that are complicated.

Anyone who is drawn in broad strokes either negatively or positively is generally not very interesting to play.