Quotes About Complexity

Elegant writers depict intricacy with simplicity.

One can find women who have never had a love affair but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

Most men who run down women are running down one woman only.

In the beginning said a Persian poet - Allah took a rose a lily a dove a serpent a little honey a Dead Sea apple and a handful of clay. When he looked at the amalgram - it was a woman.

I know nothing at all about women. They are an amazing, beautiful mystery.

These archetypal older women in movies can sometimes make my skin crawl. It's about the one dimension it's about the lack of any texture.

A lot of women, when they're young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It's easy to be friends when everyone's 18.

We can't shame women for trying to be beautiful. That's so mean and unfair. But there's a part of me that thinks it's really sad, too. It's very complicated.

One rule is to not use complicated techniques unless they are necessary to achieve your goal. First, use simple movements, and if they don't work, then introduce the more complex ones.

Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.

There is something wrong with a work of art if it can be understood by a policeman.

When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.

I like keeping my work so open that it can be interpreted on different levels. Art can't be compared with journalism; it can't discuss concrete issues.

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

With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work.

Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.

Every good work should have at least ten meanings.

I would say that in 2000, we understand as much about how today's system of globalization is going to work as we understood about how the Cold War system was going to work in 1946.

A strong work of art really leaves people speechless. They feel a little angry because they don't understand it.

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

People have two sides, and a person first becomes appealing when you discover both of those sides - and worlds work exactly the same way.

Life cannot be captured in a few axioms. And that is just what I keep trying to do. But it won't work, for life is full of endless nuances and cannot be captured in just a few formulae.