Bold simplicity is the keynote to good design. — Sailor Jerry
The best design is the simplest one that works. — Albert Einstein
Simplicity is the soul of modern elegance. — Bill Blass
The trend of design toward simplicity and accessibility in software happened for a reason—simple sells, simple’s usable and simple scales. — Rand Fishkin
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger Dijkstra
Good design means as little design as possible. — Dieter Rams
Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance. — Jon Franklin
Simplicity, suitability and proportion. — Elsie De Wolfe
Simplicity is indeed often the sign of truth and a criterion of beauty. — Mahlon Hoagland
Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product. — Sayings
Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art. — Albrecht Durer
Simplicity And Elegance Quotes
Elegance must be the right combination of distinction, naturalness, care and simplicity. Outside this, believe me, there is no elegance. Only pretension. — Christian Dior
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. — Albert Einstein
To be alive is to totally and openly participate in the simplicity and elegance of here and now. — Don Altman
Life is really simple but we insist on making it complicated
Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance. — Coco Chanel
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
Journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
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
Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts. — Satish Kumar
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
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
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
Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.
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
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
Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to make something simple.
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
I think there is a profound and enduring beauty in simplicity; in clarity, in efficiency. True simplicity is derived from so much more than just the absence of clutter and ornamentation. It's about bringing order to complexity. — Jonathan Ive
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
Some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful.
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
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
Take time to enjoy the simple things in life
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
Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness. — E. T. Bell
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
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
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 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 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
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
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
Life Simplicity Quotes
Less is more. Simplicity is awesome. That's all you need in life. Its just my personal philosophy. — G-Eazy
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves. — Alan Watts
How many undervalue the power of simplicity ! But it is the real key to the heart. — William Wordsworth
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. — Robert Breault
The little things? The little moments? They aren't little. — Jon Kabat-Zinn
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. — Lao Tzu
When you are introduced
to the clarity inside of you,
to the simplicity inside of you,
to that beauty inside of you,
the journey of life begins. — Prem Rawat
Practically speaking, a life that is vowed to simplicity, appropriate boldness, good humor, gratitude, unstinting work and play, and lots of walking, brings us close to the actually existing world and its wholeness. — Gary Snyder
Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires. — Lao Tzu
My Simplicity Quotes
I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes. — Yves Saint Laurent
My two puppies don’t do linear algebra to learn how to catch a toy. — Jensen Huang
Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself. — Henry David Thoreau
My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety. — Hank Stram
In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and pretentiousness is a crime. — Karl Popper
I am a great believer in the simplicity of things and as you probably know I am inclined to hang on to broad & simple ideas like grim death until evidence is too strong for my tenacity. — Ernest Rutherford
I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others. — John Woolman
Since all the riches of this world
May be gifts from the Devil and earthly kings,
I should suspect that I worshipp'd the Devil
If I thank'd my God for worldly things. — William Blake
Its true. Im a simple person. Some people tend to live from trauma to trauma, and that energizes them. I have a hectic schedule, but my mind seeks simplicity - like being in nature, a long bike ride, or sitting on the back porch. — Amy Grant
One of the principal objects of theoretical research in my department of knowledge is to find the point of view from which the subject appears in its greatest simplicity. — J. Willard Gibbs
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
Simple Style Quotes
The essence of style is a simple way of saying something complex. — Giorgio Armani
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things. — Jean Cocteau
Players who are not from the U.K. have to get used to the winds. I have to adapt my style as a result as well. Often, you are forced to keep things simple. — Jurgen Klopp
Only great minds can afford a simple style. — Stendhal
My personal style is kind of tomboy-boho chic! Sort of funky but simple. — Jessica Szohr
Unlike dragons, I love spicy salsa. In fact, the spicier the better. For me, the ideal taco toppings are chopped onion, some cilantro and a bit of lime juice. I like the classic Mexican style. I like crunchy, Tex-Mex, cheese-slathered too, but I prefer to keep it simple. — Adam Rubin
I hate that impeccable, perfectly perfect look, all matched and prearranged. Style is to be simple. — Elsa Peretti
A simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear to be so. — Anatole France
The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple. — Rudolf Arnheim
I think my style revolves around the philosophy that less is more, that simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. That goes for my taste in design and in clothes, and even affects the way I approach music. I'm all about keeping things simple, and minimal, but being able to convey something powerful through that approach. — G-Eazy
The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there. — Gordon Bell
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
Discipline in typography is a prime virtue. Individuality must be secured by means that are rational. Distinction needs to be won by simplicity and restraint. It is equally true that these qualities need to be infused wiht a certain spirit and vitality, or they degenerate into dullness and mediocrity. — Stanley Morison
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
Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling -- the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration. — Niklaus Wirth
The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity. — Tony Hoare
Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information. — Edward Tufte
You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them. — Jean Cocteau
One of the great skills in using any language is knowing what not to use, what not to say. There's that simplicity thing again. — Ron Jeffries
Our goal is to try to bring a calm and simplicity to what are incredibly complex problems so that you're not aware really of the solution. — Jonathan Ive
The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple. — Sayings
Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity. — David Gelernter
Fate loves to invent patterns and designs. Its difficulty lies in complexity. But life itself is difficult because of its simplicity. It has only a few things of a grandeur not fit for us. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Design is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing. — Jonathan Ive
There's an applied style of being minimal and simple, and then there's real simplicity. This looks simple, because it really is. — Jonathan Ive
Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible. — Alan Kay
Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in. — Alan Cooper
The difference between the novice and the master is simply that the novice has not learnt, yet, how to do things in such a way that he can afford to make small mistakes. The master knows that the sequence of his actions will always allow him to cover his mistakes a little further down the line. It is this simple but essential knowledge which gives the work of a master carpenter its wonderful, smooth, relaxed, and almost unconcerned simplicity. — Christopher Alexander
I like to preserve simplicity rahter than over-polishing. Fashions are changeable. Taste is in realizing the essence of a place. — Nancy Lancaster
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