126 Quotes About Elegance

Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

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.

Beauty = elegance = economy = simplicity. This is not only the simplest possible world but also the most beautiful possible world. The only thing that makes our world ugly is human behavior! That’s because humans have failed to know themselves. They have over-complicated everything.

One must learn to be simple, anyone can manage to be complex.

Sometimes simplicity and elegance are indistinguishable from each other.

Some things just work. There is elegance in simplicity.

Indeed, "brute force" solutions are often characteristic of advanced cultures, not primitive ones. The Romans and their predecessors spent a long time figuring out how to build arches... and virtually all our buildings today use post-and-lintel construction, precisely what the arch was devised to replace. We have better materials and more money, and given that, arches are usually not worth the extra complexity.