Simplicity Quotes

The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.

I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

I don't really like politics that much. And I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world.

Simplicity makes me happy.

Simplicity is a state of mind.

I am convinced that there can be luxury in simplicity.

What's completely insane to me is that people would consider music that's simple to be dumbed-down. Couldn't simplicity be a deliberate, smart choice?

The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.

A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him.

I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.

They are unique in the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life that they enclose.

Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity.

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

For simplicity one can think of the + class as having one extra base at some point or other in the genetic message and the - class as having one too few.

As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration.

As much as we all talk about the future and how so many things are merging, there is a simplicity that is crucial.

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

I am completely attracted to the idea of simplicity, or at least removing things that seem unnecessary when trying to get an idea out there.

Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection.

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it.