Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art. — Albrecht Durer
Simplicity In Design Quotes
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. — Albert Einstein
The trend of design toward simplicity and accessibility in software happened for a reason—simple sells, simple’s usable and simple scales. — Rand Fishkin
The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there. — Gordon Bell
Life is really simple but we insist on making it complicated
The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise. — Edsger Dijkstra
A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do — Dennis Ritchie
Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product. — Sayings
Journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming. — Brian Kernighan
Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful. — John Maeda
Simplicity is not the absence of clutter. — Jonathan Ive
In the face of the economic plight, it is our task to become pioneers of simplicity, that is, to find a simple form for all of life's necessities, which is at the same time respectable and genuine. — Oskar Schlemmer
Beauty In Simplicity Quotes
As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration. — Laura Nyro
A pure heart is perhaps one which has no natural propulsion towards anything in any manner whatsoever. When in its extreme simplicity such a heart has become like a writing-tablet beautifully smoothed and polished, God comes to dwell in it and writes there His own laws. — Maximus the Confessor
My definition of beauty is simplicity, elegance, and sensuality. I think that when a woman is in harmony with herself and remains true to her values, she will glow naturally. — Megan Fox
Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside.
Berzelius' symbols are horrifying. A young student in chemistry might as soon learn Hebrew as make himself acquainted with them... They appear to me equally to perplex the adepts in science, to discourage the learner, as well as to cloud the beauty and simplicity of the atomic theory. — John Dalton
It would seem that more than function itself, simplicity is the deciding factor in the aesthetic equation. One might call the process beauty through function and simplification. — Raymond Loewy
Human relationships are about communicating. Business jargon should be banished in favor of simple English. Simplicity is a sign of truth and a criterion of beauty. Complexity can be a way of hiding the truth. — Helena Rubinstein
Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.
True beauty of dress consists in its simplicity . . . What do these devotees of fashion gain? Only the satisfaction of being admired, like a butterfly. — Ellen G. White
When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep; yes, and when I walk alone in a beautiful orchard, if my thoughts drift to far-off matters for some part of the time for some other part I lead them back again to the walk, the orchard, to the sweetness of this solitude, to myself. — Michel de Montaigne
All my own small perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Capablanca's play produced and still produces an irresistable artistic effect. In his games a tendency towards simplicity predominated, and in this simplicity there was a unique beauty of genuine depth. — Mikhail Botvinnik
Simple And Beautiful Quotes
To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Joys come from simple and natural things: mists over meadows, sunlight on leaves, the path of the moon over water. — Sigurd F. Olson
I remained a socialist for several years, even after my rejection of Marxism; and if there could be such a thing as socialism combined with individual liberty, I would be a socialist still. For nothing could be better than living a modest, simple, and free life in an egalitarian society. — Karl Popper
Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to make something simple.
I've decided I'm going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty is just too good to pass up. — Christopher McCandless
I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles. — Anne Frank
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous. — Leonardo da Vinci
Elegance is the only beauty that never fades.
I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven. — Barbra Streisand
Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make it vague and insignificant. Yet color may, by combination with lines, create great pictures, so long as it does not smother and destroy their value. — Rabindranath Tagore
I have travelled around the globe. I have seen the Canadian and American Rockies, the Andes, the Alps and the Highlands of Scotland, but for simple beauty, Cape Breton outrivals them all! — Alexander Graham Bell
To be simple means to make a choice about what's important, and let go of all the rest. When we are able to do this, our vision expands, our heads clear, and we can better see the details of our lives in all their incredible wonder and beauty. — John Daido Loori
Love Simplicity Quotes
Life is very simple. What I give out comes back to me.
Today, I choose to give love. — Louise Hay
It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature. — Laura Ingalls Wilder
Peace is the simplicity of heart, serenity of mind, tranquility of soul, the bond of love. — Pio of Pietrelcina
Take time to enjoy the simple things in life
The beautiful simplicity of our faith is that it distills down to the exact same bottom line for both the brilliant theologian and the five-year-old child: love God and love each other - period. — Richard Stearns
The life that intends to be wholly obedient, wholly submissive, wholly listening, is astonishing in its completeness. Its joys are ravishing, its peace profound, its humility the deepest, its power world-shaking, its love enveloping, its simplicity that of a trusting child. — Thomas Raymond Kelly
Elegance is not about being noticed, it's about being remembered.
Advent is the season of the secret, the secret of the growth of Christ, of divine love growing in silence…For nine months, Christ grew in his mother's body. By his own will, she formed him from herself, from the simplicity of her daily life. — Caryll Houselander
Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart. — Buddha
Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth. — Mary Wollstonecraft
Because simplicity isn't the greatest thing in the world, but love. — Bo Sanchez
Simplicity In Art Quotes
In cooking, as in all the arts, simplicity is the sign of perfection. — Curnonsky
To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is. — Bruce Lee
You cannot do silhouettes in fantasy. Ah, no, you must be faithful. It is, the art, a, what you call, paradox. It is always that you must be simple, and then, if you are simple, you will stimulate the imagination of the observer. — Ugo Mochi
If I preach against the modern artificial life of sensual enjoyment, and ask men and women to go back to the simple life epitomized in the charkha, I do so because I know that without an intelligent return to simplicity, there is no escape from our d. — Mahatma Gandhi
Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts. — Satish Kumar
There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already confessed. — Robert Breault
The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have. — Steve Jobs
Never put more than two waves in a picture; it's fussy. — Winslow Homer
If one's life is simple, contentment has to come. — Dalai Lama
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
Elegance Quotes
Elegance doesn’t mean being noticed, it means being remembered — Giorgio Armani
Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside. — Coco Chanel
Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant. — Maya Angelou
Elegance is not catching somebody's eyes, it's staying in somebody's memory — Giorgio Armani
Real elegance is everywhere, especially in the things that don't show. — Christian Dior
Elegance is the only beauty that never fades. — Audrey Hepburn
Individuality will always be one of the conditions of real elegance — Christian Dior
Elegance must be the right combination of distinction, naturalness, care and simplicity. Outside this, believe me, there is no elegance. Only pretension. — Christian Dior
Error never shows itself in its naked reality, in order not to be discovered. On the contrary, it dresses elegantly, so that the unwary may be led to believe that it is more truthful than truth itself. — Irenaeus of Lyons
Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman. — Coco Chanel
Simplicity And Complexity Quotes
That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains. — Steve Jobs
Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge for. — Chris Sacca
Focus and simplicity...once you get there, you can move mountains. — Steve Jobs
Solving with ‘more’ means more complexity, more costs, more responsibilities, and typically more expenses. — Paul Jarvis
It’s the mark of a charlatan to try and explain simple things in complex ways and it’s the mark of a genius to explain complicated things in simple ways. — Naval Ravikant
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities. — Norman Vincent Peale
Persuading through Simplifying - Using computing technology to reduce complex behavior to simple tasks increases the benefit/cost ratio of the behavior and influences users to perform the behavior. — B. J. Fogg
In a single sentence the moral is: admit that complexity always increases, first from the model you fit to the data, thence to the model you use to think about and plan about the experiment and its analysis, and thence to the true situation. — John Tukey
Simplicity and complexity need each other. — John Maeda
That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex. — Steve Jobs
Simple Beauty Quotes
Take the rose—most people think it very beautiful: I don’t care for It at all. I prefer the cactus, for the simple reason that it has a more interesting personality. It has wonderfully adapted itself to its surroundings! It is the best illustration of the theory of evolution in plant life. — Charles Proteus Steinmetz
Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated. — Paul Rand
Peace may sound simple - one beautiful word - but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal. — Yehudi Menuhin
The secret to beauty is simple - be who you are. — Bobbi Brown
The purpose of being is really making the soul ascend, to expand consciousness. That’s our true purpose. And if we follow that path then there is no tension. You just live like a kid, open. It’s all simple. It’s beautiful and the energy is clean. We are children of mother nature. — Wim Hof
Remember this: For all the ugliness in the world there is far more beauty. For all the cruelty there is far more kindness. And remember one more thing: Those who remind you of this simple fact-keep them close — Dalia Mogahed
Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a century, or a millennium - we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been so stupid? — John Archibald Wheeler
Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The most luxurious item is a beautiful bed and beautiful, simple sheets. — Andre Leon Talley
To be alive is to totally and openly participate in the simplicity and elegance of here and now. — Don Altman
A designer can mull over complicated designs for months. Then suddenly the simple, elegant, beautiful solution occurs to him. When it happens to you, it feels as if God is talking! And maybe He is. — Leo Frankowski
Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated. — Edsger Dijkstra
I like to think that I can introduce people to the idea of simplicity and elegance. — Giorgio Armani
Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle. — Edward Witten
The general problem with ambitious systems is complexity. [...] it is important to emphasize the value of simplicity and elegance, for complexity has a way of compounding difficulties. — Fernando J. Corbato
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, M.D.
Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be. — Paulo Coelho
I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function — Donald A. Norman
While Occam's razor is a useful tool in the physical sciences, it can be a very dangerous implement in biology. It is thus very rash to use simplicity and elegance as a guide in biological research. — Francis Crick
The famous Florentine elegance, which attracts tourists to the shops on Via Tornabuoni and Via della Vigna Nuova, is characterized by austerity of line, simplicity, economy of effect. — Mary McCarthy
Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better. — Edsger Dijkstra
Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty is intimately related to our ability to process and understand complexity. A language that makes it hard to write elegant code makes it hard to write good code. — Eric S. Raymond
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. — William P. Alford
Avoid fragmentation: Find your focus and seek simplicity. Purposeful living calls for elegant efficiency and economy of effort-expanding the minimum time and energy necessary to achieve desired goals. — Dan Millman
Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy. — William Cowper
I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function. — Donald Norman
My aesthetic is about simplicity, elegance, and comfort, whether that is interpreted in a man's suit or a track suit. — Giorgio Armani
An elegant simplicity is an understated, organic aesthetic that contrasts with the excess of consumerist lifestyles. Drawing from influences ranging from Zen to the Quakers, it celebrates natural materials and clean, functional expressions, such as are found in many of the hand-made arts and crafts from this community. — Duane Elgin
Elegant in its simplicity and practicality, Lee has distilled many powerful leadership strategies into the lessons many of us learned as children. They are no less relevant to our working lives. At its core, Creating Magic is a collection of stories that reminds us to demonstrate care and respect for every member of the team and to focus our efforts not our ourselves but on the people we lead. — George Bodenheimer
All times are changing times, but ours is one of massive, rapid moral and mental transformation. Archetypes turn into millstones, large simplicities get complicated, chaos becomes elegant, and what everybody knows is true turns out to be what some people used to think. — Ursula K. Le Guin
How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity - in short: what mathematicians call elegance - are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure? — Edsger Dijkstra
Throughout this book, we've been evangelizing simplicity, but ironically, the practice of simplicity is not simple. It is easy to build a bulky design by adding layer upon layer of navigation and features; it's much more difficult to create simple, graceful designs. Paring designs to essential elements while maintaining elegance and functionality requires courage and discipline. — Jakob Nielsen
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