#complicate

The hurricane complicates things in that what would have been purely a business decision becomes a decision of the heart. ↗

— Henry Cisneros

#been #business #complicates #decision #heart

For us to deem a work of architecture elegant, it is hence not enough that it look simple: we must feel that the simplicity it displays has been hard won, that it flows from the resolution of demanding technical or natural predicament. Thus we call the Shaker staircase in Pleasant Hill elegant because we know--without ever having constructed one ourselves--that a staircase is a site complexity, and that combinations of treads, risers and banisters rarely approach the sober intelligibility of the Sharkers' work. We deem a modern Swiss house elegant because we not how seamlessly its windows have been joined to their concrete walls, and how neatly the usual clutter of construction has been resolved away. We admire starkly simple works that we intuit would, without immense effort, have appeared very complicated. (p 209) ↗

— Alain de Botton

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I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated. ↗

— James D. Watson

#become #complicated #dealing #i #i think

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#brain #complicated #heart #kindness #need

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it. ↗

— Charles Lindbergh

#earth #feel #god #himself #his

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. ↗

— Charles Mingus

#complicated #creativity #making #simple

Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated. ↗

— Paul Rand

#art #complicated #content #definition

I don't have this crazy dream about going to Hollywood, because I really love to watch movies and do movies that are complicated, and I want more strange things and complicated things. ↗

— Noomi Rapace

#because #complicated #complicated things #crazy #dream

The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes. ↗

— David Remnick

#beautiful #beauty #broadcaster #caravan #comes

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#delusions #events #every #false #into