“Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication.
-Aunt Beast”
Source: A Wrinkle in Time
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Madeleine L'Engle 223
American writer 1918–2007Related quotes
“It is always so simple, and so complicating, to accept an apology.”
“Push your limit to the absolute extreme.”
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.
“An Unprejudiced Mind,” p. 317
Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality (1964)
“That my complicated life could be made so simple was astounding.”
Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
“Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.”
