Simplicity Quotes
Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.
What I look for in music is artistry, sincerity, and simplicity, and Tom Waits has all of that. I want to make a connection to the creator.
If thou hadst simplicity and purity, thou wouldst be able to comprehend all things without error, and behold them without danger. The pure heart safely pervades not only heaven, but hell.
You're trying to make your painting too complicated. Paintings get complicated all by themselves.
The most interesting studio work, and perhaps the most practicable, is painting from pencil sketches and notes... It ensures the elimination of all facts but those essential to the effect.
In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.
The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.
The law of simplicity and naïveté applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime.
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
It's hard to read through a book on the principles of magic without glancing at the cover periodically to make sure it isn't a book on software design.
In my simplicity, I remember wondering why every gentleman did not become an ornithologist.
A great error is more easily propagated than a great truth, because it is easier to believe, than to reason, and because people prefer the marvels of romances to the simplicity of history.
Embrace simplicity…be content with what you have and are, and not one can despoil you.
Anarchy is a function, not of a society's simplicity and lack of social organization, but of it's complexity and multiplicity of social organizations.
Happiness in simplicity can be achieved with a flexible mindset and nine hours sleep each night.
Simplicity has power. Founding our life on constructive, positive behavior is the simplest, most direct, and powerful approach I've ever found-simple, but not easy.
Simplicity is about clarity of thought and being willing to stay in a problem long enough to come to a solution, though it could be right in front of you.
This is one of those rare recipes, surprising in its flavors and wonderful in its simplicity -- an out-and-out favorite of mine.
To be free of the discriminating is to manifest miraculous awareness-awareness that is miraculously simple, miraculously unadorned.
Furniture! Thank God, I can sit and I can stand without the aid of a furniture warehouse.
We hunger for nobility: the rare words and acts that harmonize simplicity and truth.
Generally, I am opposed to painting which is concerned with conceptions of simplicity. Everything looks busy to me.
Life is simplified when there is one center; one reason, one motivation, one direction and purpose.
The quest for simplicity has to pervade every part of the process. It really is fundamental.
There's an applied style of being minimal and simple, and then there's real simplicity. This looks simple, because it really is.
Simplicity is a key to avoiding complication. Part of the definition of simplicity is 'not complex or complicated; sincere.'
At the simplicity of the gesture, he felt a pang: the raw nerve of his loneliness exposed.
Nature teaches us simplicity and contentment, because in its presence we realize we need very little to be happy.
If it's working, keep doing it. If it's not working, stop doing it. If you don't know what to do, don't do anything.
A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.
The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.
