Simplicity Quotes

Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.

In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science.

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.

There's something really appealing about the simplicity of black-and-white images.

A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.

I feel that the simplicity of life is just being yourself.

And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation.

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

What is so brilliant about the gadgets is their simplicity.

The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.

I find that kid actors are great reminders of the simplicity of acting. As you get older, you can sometimes complicate things a little more. You can become too aware of, 'Okay, this is the scene emotionally. This is where we need to be. We've got the climax coming up.' You can start to analyze it too much.

I despise simplicity. It is the negation of all that is beautiful.

What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer.

Seek simplicity but distrust it.

Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which employments of a more precarious and casual nature are subject.

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.

One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity.

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.