“Then on your tombstone, where you only get a little bit of space to sum up your life, some wax-faced creep chisels… — Scott Nicholson Copy Share Image
As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
“There was the presence only of essentials. It was an uncluttered kind of life, a simplicity deliberately constructed so that she could… — Mason Currey Copy Share Image
Simplicity is the heart of everything. If you look to the desert, apparently the desert is very simple but it's full of… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Perfect beauty implies perfect simplicity, a quality that at first sight does not arouse the emotions which we feel before gigantic works,… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
“are vital. The way of the Essentialist involves learning to tell the difference—learning to filter through all those options and selecting only… — Greg McKeown Copy Share Image
The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“The simple act of sailing had carried him beyond the world of reversals, frustrations, and inanities. And in the space of a… — Alfred Lansing Copy Share Image
“Vices are simply overworked virtues, anyway. Economy and frugality are to be commended but follow them on in an increasing ratio and… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
“When Van Gogh was a young man in his early twenties, he was in London studying to be a clergyman. He had… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Simplicity in all things is the secret of the wilderness and one of its most valuable lessons. It is what we leave… — Sigurd F. Olson Copy Share Image
There is a certain class of unbelievers who sometimes ask me such questions as, if I think that I can live on… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am not a romantic. I am a domestic animal. I do not sigh and yearn for extravagant displays of passion, for… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
For if as scientists we seek simplicity, then obviously we try the simplest surviving theory first, and retreat from it only when… — Nelson Goodman Copy Share Image
Scientific progress is the discovery of a more and more comprehensive simplicity... The previous successes give us confidence in the future of… — Georges Lemaitre Copy Share Image
For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
People tend to measure themselves by external accomplishments, but jail allows a person to focus on internal ones; such as honesty, sincerity,… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The components of happiness are quite simple. Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now. In its true… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, "Be thou exalted," and a thousand minor… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
ARTLESSNESS, n. A certain engaging quality to which women attain by long study and severe practice upon the admiring male, who is… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Minimalism is just the beginning. It’s a tool. Once you’ve gone ahead and minimized, it’s time to find out what those important… — Fumio Sasaki Copy Share Image
Simplicity survives the changes of fashion. Women of chic are wearing now dresses they bought from me in 1936. Fit the century,… — Valentina Copy Share Image
Avoid fragmentation: Find your focus and seek simplicity. Purposeful living calls for elegant efficiency and economy of effort-expanding the minimum time and… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
Looking back at my earlier pictures, I think that the work is very much coming from the same place. I have gone… — Tim Walker Copy Share Image
As we grow older, life becomes simpler, we just enjoy the present moments with the ones we love. We just love eating,… — Innah Delos Angeles Copy Share Image
“The grass is green The tulip is red A ginger cat walks over The pink almond petals on the flower bed. Enough… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
“that he live in all respects so compactly and preparedly that, if an enemy take the town, he can, like the old… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Hygge happens when we commit to the pleasure of the present moment in its simplicity. It's there in the things we do… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
Anything that might come under arts should not be subject to the whims of the idiotic market because the market's stupid, and… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“If I talk about her like she’s a being It’s because talking about her I need to use the language of men… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
If I preach against the modern artificial life of sensual enjoyment, and ask men and women to go back to the simple… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“[Tea-masters] have given emphasis to our natural love of simplicity, and shown us the beauty of humility. In fact, through their teachings… — Kakuzō Okakura Copy Share Image
“Simple answers to greater questions also create shadows, making it easier to hide the truth of things. Sadly, there are many who… — Jordan Baker Copy Share Image
“Simplicity is the foundation of a life well-lived, where we prioritize experiences, relationships, and personal growth over material possessions.” — Henry Johnson Jr Copy Share Image
Music that is considered minimalism - or post-minimalism music in general - things of that nature or that come from that tradition,… — Oneohtrix Point Never Copy Share Image
How good the design is doesn't matter near as much as whether the design is getting better or worse. If it is… — Kent Beck Copy Share Image