“He loved her. It was as simple and as complicated as that.”

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.

Source: The Great Perhaps

Source: I Shall Wear Midnight

Simplicity http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21390/Simplicity
From the poems written in English

Source: Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person

Variant: It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.
Source: Every Day

Variant: Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.