Simplicity Quotes

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The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If only simplicity were not the most difficult of all things. It consists of watching objectively the development of any fragment of fantasy. — Carl Jung
Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance; for it seems to me I once… — Michel de Montaigne
Life is one long struggle to disinter oneself, to keep one's head above the accumulations, the ever deepening layers of objects ... which attempt to… — Rose Macaulay
Truth is quite beyond the reach of satire. There is so brave a simplicity in her that she can no more be made ridiculous than… — James Russell Lowell
May you find in yourself enough patience to endure and enough simplicity to have faith... — Rainer Maria Rilke
The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less. — Albert Camus
With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials. — Henri Matisse
Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm. — Agnes Repplier
It is by great economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple. — Edward de Bono
For effective communication, use brevity. Jesus said, 'Follow me.' Now that's brief! He could be brief because of all that he was that he didn't… — Jim Rohn
Simplicity is cosmic, because it places our life on the same scale as all life, of innocent Nature herself, who is all-powerful. — Deepak Chopra
It was so simple to paint things as I saw them; to put without special calculation a red close to a blue. — Paul Gauguin
Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity. — Thomas Sowell
In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness. — Alan Watts
Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation, health and self-fulfillment... the values that self-actualizers appreciate include truth, creativity, beauty,… — Abraham Maslow
If the artist's will is not strong he will see all kinds of unessential things. — Robert Henri
When you lose your simplicity, you lose your drama. — Andrew Wyeth
By using patches of color and tone it is possible to capture every natural impression in the simplest way, freshly and immediately. — Paul Klee

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