984 Quotes About Simplicity

Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer.

By using patches of color and tone it is possible to capture every natural impression in the simplest way, freshly and immediately.

Simplicity is the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God, purity unites with and enjoys him.

Simplicity reaches out after God; purity discovers and enjoys Him.

Certain environments, certain modes of life, and certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification is one of them.

When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity.

Out of chaos, find simplicity, From discord, find harmony.

Cultivate simplicity, Coleridge.

I allow no hot-beds in the gardens of Parnassus.