Simplicity Quotes

I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.

Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.

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

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

Simplicity is the key.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical nature and the simplicity of his work that really hit me.

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.

Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

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 love the simplicity, the ingredients, the culture, the history and the seasonality of Italian cuisine. In Italy people do not travel. They cook the way grandma did, using fresh ingredients and what is available in season.

The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points.

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 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.