A Quote by Charles Bukowski

Intellectuals say simple things in difficult ways. Artists say difficult things in simple ways.

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Charles Bukowski
American - Novelist
August 16, 1920 - March 9, 1994

There are many ways of understanding simple things, but generally the opposite is true for difficult ideas

Miyamoto Musashi

It's often about the simple things, isn't it? Painting and photography are first about seeing, they say. Writing is about observing. Technique is secondary. Sometimes the simple is the most difficult.

Linda Olsson

Profound things are simple. If it is not simple, it cannot be true. But simple things are difficult.

Douglas Harding

The lyrics aren't simple, either. They're extremely difficult because I'm trying to say complicated things in as few words as possible.

Neil Diamond

Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.

Carl Jung

In war everything is simple, but it's the simple things that are difficult.

Carl von Clausewitz

It is difficult to discuss... history.. it is more difficult to talk about today.. simple things…

Thabo Mbeki

Beauty means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. A lot of different ways in which things can be beautiful. But this really has a very specific meaning and which is more along the lines of elegance which is that we say an idea is beautiful or elegant in mathematics or physics if a very simple principle or a very simple idea, or simple set of ideas, turns out to be very powerful and leads to all sort of unexpected structure and unexpected predictions.

Peter Woit

To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy; but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why genius is so rare.

Gertrude Stein

Arriving at a simple piece of music is a very difficult balance because, in being simple, you could easily be banal, so maybe it's more difficult to write a simple piece of music than a 12-tone piece where no one understands exactly what it is about.

Ludovico Einaudi

People might say I'm difficult, but did you ever hear anyone describe a label as 'difficult'? By nature, artists should challenge. When they call you difficult, it is a reflection of the imbalance of power.

Michelle Shocked

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.