Quotes About Complexity

Criticism is easy, art is difficult.

It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.

...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.

Both science and art have to do with ordered complexity.

The art which is grand and yet simple is that which presupposes the greatest elevation both in artist and in public.

All artists are two-headed calves.

Art is the filigrain of a little mind, and is twisted and involved and curled, but would reach farther if laid out in a straight line.

Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself.

Art is ultimately schizophrenic.

If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.

The realm of classical music is so vast - not only in terms of style but of era, age and the purposes for which it was composed - it is an enormous art form.

But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.

A game of chess holds many secrets. Fortunately! That is why we cannot clearly state whether chess is science, art, or a sport.

As an artist, I have been a risk-taker. And I've done a lot of different things. I don't make it easy for people. Identification is difficult. One doesn't recognize my art right away.

Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference.

The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.

Acting is an art and a science and there is more to me then that young blonde kid.

Despite its scientific pretensions, economics still remains more of an art than a science

It can be argued that the mathematics behind these images [of the orbit diagram for quadratic functions and the Mandelbrot set] is even prettier than the pictures themselves.

Self-exposure is commendable in art only when it is of a quality and complexity that allows other people to learn about themselves from it.