Source: Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007), Chapter 13 “Points of Decision” section 2 (p. 587)
“I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.”
Statement in Mainliner (July 1977), as quoted in Creativity and the writing process (1982) by Olivia Bertagnolli, p. 182; also partly quoted in Survival Skills for Managers (1981) by Marlene Wilson, p. 19
Variant: Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple.
As quoted in The Evaluation and Treatment of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (1999) by Nils R. Varney and Richard J. Roberts, p. 303
Context: My son's a painter. All through school his teachers tell him he's a genius. I tell him to paint me an apple that looks like and apple before he paints me one that doesn't. Go where you can go, but start from someplace recognizable. Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
“You aren’t making art, you’re making corpses. Dead is dead.”
Source: The Way of Shadows (2008), Chapter 12 (p. 92)
“No one would think he'd make such a beautiful corpse.”
Source: Dubliners
"Answers to Questions," from Mid-Century American Poets, edited by John Ciardi, 1950 [p. 170]
Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)
“Love makes everything complicated.”
Source: American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
Pretty Cool People interview (2007)
Source: A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1858), Ch. 11
“The most complicated enigma to solve is finding the right person to share your life with.”
Original: L'enigma più complicato da risolvere è trovare la persona giusta con la quale condividere la propria vita.
Source: prevale.net
