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A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels. ~Andy Goldsworthy
A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long. ~Eugene Delacroix
And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity. ~Will Wright
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction. ~E.F. Schumacher (Thanks, Arly)
Anything simple always interests me. ~David Hockney
As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art. ~Albrecht Durer
As much as we all talk about the future and how so many things are merging, there is a simplicity that is crucial. ~Ryan Seacrest
Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ~Lao Tzu
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. ~Lin Yutang
Beware the barrenness of a busy life. ~Socrates
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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. ~Mark Hyman
Eliminate physical clutter. More importantly, eliminate spiritual clutter. ~Terri Guillemets
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. ~Albert Einstein
Everything we possess that is not necessary for life or happiness becomes a burden, and scarcely a day passes that we do not add to it. ~Robert Brault
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers. ~Herbert Hoover
For simplicity one can think of the + class as having one extra base at some point or other in the genetic message and the - class as having one too few. ~Francis Crick
French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well. ~Edward Sapir
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. ~William Shenstone
Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful. ~William Morris
How many things are there which I do not want. ~Socrates
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I am completely attracted to the idea of simplicity, or at least removing things that seem unnecessary when trying to get an idea out there. ~Demetri Martin
I am convinced that there can be luxury in simplicity. ~Jil Sander
I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function. ~Donald Norman
I despise simplicity. It is the negation of all that is beautiful. ~Norman Hartnell
I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me. ~Linda McCartney
I feel that the simplicity of life is just being yourself. ~Bobby Brown
I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them. ~Sherwood Anderson
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. ~Lao Tzu
I just like simplicity. I like simple songs, I like simple chords, simple vocals, simple lead guitar. I just like simplicity. That's just the way I like it. ~Jeremy Spencer
I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes. ~Yves Saint Laurent
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I'm just a simple guy, I live from day to day. A ray of sunshine melts my frown and blows my blues away. ~Jimmy Page
In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. ~Henry David Thoreau
In writing, I search for believability, simplicity and emotional impact. ~Hal David
Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully? ~E. T. A. Hoffmann
I've always liked simplicity. ~Marissa Mayer
I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy. ~Ziyi Zhang
Life is amazingly good when it's simple and amazingly simple when it's good. ~Terri Guillemets
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. ~Confucius
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Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires. ~Lao Tzu
Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache. ~Philip Wylie
Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food. ~Frank A. Clark
More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists in history. ~Robert Brault
My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety. ~Hank Stram
No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe. ~William Kingdon Clifford
Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child. ~Alexander Pope
One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity. ~Rem Koolhaas
One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb. ~Edward Sapir
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Our affluent society contains those of talent and insight who are driven to prefer poverty, to choose it, rather than submit to the desolation of an empty abundance. ~Michael Harrington
Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity. ~Christian Nestell Bovee
People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results. ~Albert Einstein
People overestimate the pleasure they'll get from having more stuff. This does not apply to new rose bushes, crayons, or yarn stashes. ~Dr. SunWolf
Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity. ~Branford Marsalis
Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity. ~Thor Heyerdahl
Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature. ~Thomas Kempis
Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves. ~Edwin Way Teale
Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request. ~Arthur Helps
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Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art. ~Frank Lloyd Wright
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. ~Alan Perlis
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Simplicity is a great element of good breeding. ~Fanny Kemble
Simplicity is a state of mind. ~Charles Wagner
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life. ~Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough. ~Charles Dudley Warner
Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art. ~Philip James Bailey
Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things. ~Constantin Brancusi
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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. ~Edsger Dijkstra
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
Simplicity is the glory of expression. ~Walt Whitman
Simplicity is the key. ~Ritchie Blackmore
Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man. ~Henry B. Adams
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius. ~George Sand
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ~Leonardo DaVinci
Simplicity makes me happy. ~Alicia Keys
Simplicity should not be identified with bareness. ~Felix Adler
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail. ~Henry David Thoreau
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. ~Hans Hofmann
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. ~Walt Whitman
The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity. ~Douglas Horton
The best things in life are not only free, but the line is shorter. ~Robert Brault
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms. ~James F. Cooper
The goal of life: simple, but not empty. ~Terri Guillemets
The great seal of truth is simplicity. ~Herman Boerhaave
The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go. ~Steve Maraboli
The greatest truths are the simplest: so likewise are the greatest men. ~Augustus William Hare
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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. ~Rudolf Arnheim
The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler. ~Edward Teller
The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. ~Charles Eastman
The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it. ~Georg C. Lichtenberg
The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest. ~Thomas More
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination. ~Elbert Hubbard
The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication. ~George Santayana
The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple. ~Doris Janzen Longacre
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There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit. ~Alexander Pope
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. ~Leo Tolstoy
There's something really appealing about the simplicity of black-and-white images. ~Joseph Gordon-Levitt
They are unique in the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life that they enclose. ~Marjory Stoneman Douglas
To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world. ~Charles Dudley Warner
Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude. ~Raymond Holliwell
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity. ~Dennis Ritchie
We don't need to increase our goods nearly as much as we need to scale down our wants. Not wanting something is as good as possessing it. ~Donald Horban
We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life. ~Paulo Coelho
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What is so brilliant about the gadgets is their simplicity. ~Desmond Llewelyn
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? ~Dan Deacon
When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it. ~Jacob Lawrence
Who is rich? He who rejoices in his portion. ~The Talmud
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. ~Stephen Leacock
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. ~Vernon Howard