Simplicity Quotes
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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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The defining qualities are about use: ease and simplicity. Caring beyond the functional imperative, we also acknowledge that products have a significance way beyond traditional views of function.
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Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.
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The aim of science is always to reduce complexity to simplicity.
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I think a lot of tunes can suffer from being so simple, so either they get over-complicated or their simplicity means the simple way to lay them down becomes the difficulty.
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I believe that one of the great pleasures that we derive from voyaging is that of independence, and we have found that the best guarantee of that independence comes from simplicity.
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Strive for simplicity! Don't have the face a checkerboard of tints! Use such colors as nature uses, but not try to keep them distinct! Your work may be called monotonous, but one tone is better than many which do not harmonize.
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I am a great believer in the simplicity of things and as you probably know I am inclined to hang on to broad & simple ideas like grim death until evidence is too strong for my tenacity.
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Stiff-necked fools, you think you are cool to deny me for simplicity.
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For it is characteristic of true simplicity that there may radiate from its utmost directness a good many glinting things.
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In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting.
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The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.
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The last thing is simplicity. After having gone through all the difficulties, having played an endless number of notes, it is simplicity that matters, with all its charm. It is the final seal on Art. Anyone who strives for this to begin with will be disappointed. You cannot begin at the end.
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In many contexts, simplicity is not an aesthetic frill.
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Pray God, keep us simple.
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Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort. To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.
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The older I get, the more I desire simplicity.
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Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
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One day there springs up the desire for money and for all that money can provide — the superfluous, luxury in eating, luxury in dressing, trifles. Needs increase because one thing calls for another. The result is uncontrollable dissatisfaction. Let us remain as empty as possible so that God can fill us up.
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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.
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Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.
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Simplicity: The New Competitive Advantage in a World of More, Better, Faster.
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Back to basics Rock & Roll capturing the beauty and simplicity of punk
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The paradox of simplicity is that making things simpler is hard work.
