Quotes About Complexity

The first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty with a wall of erudition.

Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good.

Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?

I am most interested in people. I try to capture their complexity and contradiction and beauty. It does not matter where they are from.

Know that however ugly the parts appear the whole remains beautiful.

Simplicity and beauty are the signs not of truth but of a well-constructed approximate model of a limited domain of phenomena.

The strange, unbeautiful face beautiful in its ugliness; the perfect, beautiful face ugly in its perfection.

Abstractness, sometimes hurled as a reproach at mathematics, is its chief glory and its surest title to practical usefulness. It is also the source of such beauty as may spring from mathematics.

Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity, the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty.

The ugly can achieve an absoluteness beyond the reach of beauty.

She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.

There is a terrible weight in all kinds of beauty

...beauty, she had discovered occupied a narrow band. Ugliness, on the hand, had infinite variation.

It's lovely. I hate it.

Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.

Beauty, it would seem, was both a blessing and a curse.

I don't understand beauty.

Not acknowledging that beauty is complex-that's the problem. I enjoy making it complex for people, because that's my world.

When East meets West, amazing design happens. L'Alahambra rug is a marriage of the clean line and simplicity of Western graphic design meets the complexity and beauty of Eastern pattern.

It's really kind of… well, beautiful, in a way. Even the monsters, once you get to know 'em. We're all beautiful.

What I want people to take from this is that it isn't simple. People judge you, people tell you what you should do. You do the best you can.

Chaos is roving through the system and able to undo, at any point, the best laid plans.

We're neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.

Why could nothing with Kate be simple? Why couldn't Jim ever just come by to tell me that he had bowled a perfect game or benched a personal best. Maybe finally asked that weird tiger girl out.