Simplicity Quotes

“Maharani Gayatri Devi - she was elegance and simplicity personified.”

“You can create something strong in art with a few notes. It is like how Aboriginal drawings have a simplicity that is incredibly rich.”

“When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick;Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.”

“There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.”

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”

“Simplicity, patience, compassion.These three are your greatest treasures.Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.Patient with both friends and enemies,you accord with the way things are.Compassionate toward yourself,you reconcile all beings in the world.”

“We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.”

“In normal life, "simplicity" is synonymous with "easy to do," but when a chef uses the word, it means "takes a lifetime to learn.”

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

“Some look at life, for their entire life, before they actually see.”

“Wondrous as it is, how simple is this mystery! To love Christ and to know that I love Him--this is all!”

“Austerity, if I were to define, I'll say, It's YOU.”

“I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.”

“A child of five could understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.”

“The tenets of Jeet Kune Do are simplicity, directness, and freedom, and it's meant to be a style that is efficient and non-telegraphic; you can't see it coming.”

“When you're dressing on a budget, simplicity is key.”

“When faced with unbridled wildness of reality, dinosaurs fall into fevered delusions of grandeur. In fits of madness, they recreate the world in their own overblown image, bull-dozing the wild and replacing it with a wasteland that reflects their own emptiness. Where there was once the incredibly complex diversity of nature, there is now the dead simplicity of asphalt and concrete.”

“It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.”

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

“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.”