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• You can't prove Rembrandt is better than Norman Rockwell - although if you actually do prefer Rockwell, I'd say you were shunning complexity, were secretly conservative, and hadn't really looked at either painter's work. Taste is a blood sport.

  Jerry Saltz

  Sports, Blood, Taste

  "Has Money Ruined Art?". nymag.com. October 7, 2007.

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• If there is anything the artist or a true work of art teaches us, it is that variety and complexity really increase the unity, and that to achieve unity within a great variety of complexity is a greater achievement and more satisfying piece of art than to achieve unity with just a few elements, which is relatively easily achieved.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Art, Achievement, Unity

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• I have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Boys, Diversity, Evolution

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• Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the popular culture. Fame and significance have nothing to do with one another; and complexity and profundity have nothing to do with one another.

  Dennis Prager

  Culture, Academic, Fame

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• One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes.

  Jean Tinguely

  Art, School, Fine

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• Don't go overboard with exotic or complex ways to paint. Stick to simple solutions, unless there is a good reason to do otherwise.

  Richard Schmid

  Simple, Exotic, Way

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• There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it - roaming the world.

  Christian Bale

  Father, Men, Should Have

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• Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

  Lionel Trilling

  Literature, Possibility, Difficulty

  1950 The Liberal Imagination, preface.

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• For the beginning is assuredly the end- since we know nothing, pure and simple, beyond our own complexities.

  William Carlos Williams

  Simple, Ends, Knows

  1946 Paterson, bk.1, preface.

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• It's something that people relate to - and I hope my kid doesn't relate to - but there's a level of believability in playing complex characters. You know, Christopher Walken has done some hilarious comedies, De Niro. There's great room for complexity and darkness to do well in comedies.

  Jeremy Sisto

  Kids, Character, People

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• Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.

  Edward Norton

  Stories, Duality

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• The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.

  Eugene Wigner

  Expression, Law, Simplicity

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• Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty is intimately related to our ability to process and understand complexity. A language that makes it hard to write elegant code makes it hard to write good code.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Writing, Learning, Bridges

  "Why Python?". www.linuxjournal.com. Apr 30, 2000.

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• Purpose in the human being is a much more complex phenomenon than what used to be called will power.

  Rollo May

  Purpose, Used, Will Power

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.46, W. W. Norton & Company

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• But considering that I walked in expecting no complexity at all, let alone the visual wonderments, "Snow White and the Huntsman" is a considerable experience.

  Roger Ebert

  White, Snow, Expecting

  Roger Ebert's review of "Snow White and the Huntsman", www.rogerebert.com. May 30, 2012.

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• You have to get something down, and then find ways of working in complexity and different layers of meaning... My first drafts are usually the ravings of a delusional fantasist.

  Peter Wolf

  Layers, Way, Firsts

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• Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.

  Edward de Bono

  Confusion, Focus, Simplicity

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• What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful.

  Michelle Obama

  Design, Artistic

  "Michelle Obama At The National Design Awards: HELLO YELLOW!" by Anya Strzemien, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 24, 2009.

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• The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.

  Scott Turow

  Purpose, Narrative, Ambiguity

  "'To hell with Perry Mason'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. November 24, 2002.

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• Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.

  Dan Simmons

  Movie, Three, Four

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• The fathers greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.

  Atom Egoyan

  Father, Believe, Simple

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• Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider's web?

  E. B. White

  Beautiful, Simple, Spiders

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• We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie.

  Jan de Bont

  Thinking, Shows, Humans

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• The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy - but the ones that contain the deepest explanations.

  David Deutsch

  Size, Levels, Hierarchy

  David Deutsch (2011). “The Fabric of Reality”, p.31, Penguin UK

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• Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Clouds, Circles, Mountain

  Michael Frame, Benoit Mandelbrot (2002). “Fractals, Graphics, and Mathematics Education”, p.150, Cambridge University Press

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