“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.
“Sometimes a simple question could have a complicated answer.”
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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.
“Sometimes questions are more important than answers.”
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