Dimensions Quote by Frederick Sommer

True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Elegance of manner is the outgrowth of refined and exalted sense.

— Lord Chesterfield

Deep and simple are far, far more important than shallow and complicated and fancy.

— Fred Rogers

Artistic simplicity is more complex than artistic complexity for it arises via the simplification of the latter and against its backdrop or system.

— Yuri Lotman

Study after study shows that the very best designers produce structures that are faster, smaller, simpler, clearer, and produced with less effort. The differences…

— Anonymous

Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.

— Jerry Saltz

“True Elegance is Measured by Simplicity”

— RJ Yolande Mendes

Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances.

— Henri Matisse

Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance.

— Jon Franklin

It is important to notice that these badly functioning designs were praised for 'elegance.' But elegance as theoretical scientists apply it is quite different.…

— Ralph Caplan

I think there is a profound and enduring beauty in simplicity; in clarity, in efficiency. True simplicity is derived from so much more than…

— Jonathan Ive

Elegance must be the right combination of distinction, naturalness, care and simplicity. Outside this, believe me, there is no elegance. Only pretension.

— Christian Dior