“Man, life was complicated. But the truth was simple. He was her home. He was where she belonged.”
Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist
Source: Lover Reborn
Source: These Three Remain
“Man, life was complicated. But the truth was simple. He was her home. He was where she belonged.”
Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist
Source: Lover Reborn
Charles Mingus (1922–1979) American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader
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.
“The most complicated skill is to be simple.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
Simplicity http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21390/Simplicity <br class="br">From the poems written in English
Hugh Prather (1938–2010) American writer
Source: Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person
“Simple and complicated, as most true things are.”
David Levithan book Every Day
Variant: It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.
Source: Every Day
“I want to be with you. It's as simple, and as complicated as that.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books
Variant: Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.