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• The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Art
  • Light
  • Simplicity

• Disney's House of the Future had the clean simplicity prized in the 1950s as relief from decades of frayed patchwork, jury-rigging, and make-do clutter caused by Depression and war.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • War
  • Future
  • House

• Cherish the Minnesota State Fair. Wherever you find beauty and simplicity and truth, know that there is a committee somewhere planning to improve it -- don't let them do it.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Truth
  • Planning
  • Simplicity

• Example is not the main thing. It is the only thing. That is, if the one giving the example is not saying to himself, 'Behold I am giving an example.' That spoils it. Anyone thinking of the example he will give to others has lost his simplicity. Only as a man has simplicity can his example influence others.

  

  Albert Schweitzer
  • Thinking
  • Giving
  • Lost

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

  

  Branford Marsalis
  • Work
  • Simplicity

• There's something very soothing about the simplicity of doing what's right in front of you: paying the rent, buying groceries, and when there's a little extra for a treat like cinnamon rolls, whoopee! When you live paycheck to paycheck, you only have so much to lose.

  

  Ali Liebegott
  • Live
  • Simplicity

• Writing that flirts with incoherence can just as readily flounder as writing characterized by simplicity and composure. There is no reliable formula for originality, and strategies that are distinguished as innovative in their first incarnation can quickly become stale in the hands of lesser artists.

  

  Joanna Scott
  • Writing
  • Simplicity

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

  

  Bobby Brown
  • Life
  • Simplicity

• My ideals told me that men and women could both go out to work and be truly equal. My children told me something more complicated, something I really didn't want to hear. Their need for me was like the need for water or light: it had a devastating simplicity to it.

  

  Allison Pearson
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• Apple products aren't simple technologies by any stretch, but there is a beautiful simplicity to them.

  

  John Maeda
  • Beautiful
  • Simple
  • Simplicity

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

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • Art
  • Simplicity

• Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

  

  Peace Pilgrim
  • Great
  • Freedom
  • Simplicity

• 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.

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Art
  • Achievement
  • Simplicity

• People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity. (from inside the cover)

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • People
  • Money
  • Simplicity

• How happy is the little stone That rambles in the road alone, And does n’t care about careers, And exigencies never fears; Whose coat of elemental brown A passing universe put on; And independent as the sun, Associates or glows alone, Fulfilling absolute decree In casual simplicity.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Happy
  • Alone
  • Universe

• Simplicity in preparation is the Italian way. Make easy dishes, and then you can elaborate the final preparation by decorating with vegetables or herbs or adding a dash of olive oil.

  

  Lidia Bastianich
  • Italian
  • Simplicity
  • Preparation

• Simplicity makes me happy.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Happy
  • Simplicity

• The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Life
  • Book
  • Simple

• A recurring ideal, I find, is that of simplicity. At times there comes the desire to write with great precision and clarity, words so simple and moving that they bring tears to the eyes.

  

  R. S. Thomas
  • Great
  • Words
  • Desire

• It's easier, as a white person, to be silent about racial injustice. It's easier. On paper. But it's not easier on the whole, because injustice affects all of us, whether we know it or not, whether we acknowledge it or not.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Silent
  • Injustice
  • Racial

• The food surpluses produced by peasants, coupled with new transportation technology, eventually enabled more and more people to cram together first into large villages, then into towns, and finally into cities, all of them joined together by new kingdoms and commercial networks.

  

  Yuval Noah Harari
  • People
  • Together
  • Food

• You don't want to look the same every day of your life. It's boring as hell.

  

  Joseph Abboud
  • Everyday
  • Same
  • Boring

• Futility is the defining characteristic of life.

  

  Stephen R. Donaldson
  • Life
  • Characteristic
  • Futility

• Back to basics Rock & Roll capturing the beauty and simplicity of punk

  

  Gary Crowley
  • Simplicity
  • Basics
  • beaut