Top 180 Simplicity Quotes

The spirit’s foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

Whatever simplicity I’ve achieved in writing, I think I owe most of it to Jean Renoir and Hemingway: simple, declarative sentences. I’ve read some very good writers, but the sentences were so long that I’ve forgotten what the point was.

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

I really like Calvin Klein for his classic simplicity. I also think Prabal Gurung designs some great pieces that work well for me. My mom has such great style; she’s my biggest influence.

I find that kid actors are great reminders of the simplicity of acting. As you get older, you can sometimes complicate things a little more. You can become too aware of, ‘Okay, this is the scene emotionally. This is where we need to be. We’ve got the climax coming up.’ You can start to analyze it too much.

I like simplicity; I don’t need luxury.

I prefer the simple things and I love walking in the countryside, or going camping… but simplicity is hard. It’s easier to over-complicate things.

My encouragement: delete the energy vampires from your life, clean out all complexity, build a team around you that frees you to fly, remove anything toxic, and cherish simplicity. Because that’s where genius lives.

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

Disney’s House of the Future had the clean simplicity prized in the 1950s as relief from decades of frayed patchwork, jury-rigging, and make-do clutter caused by Depression and war.

‘You Are So Beautiful,’ I think, is probably the, you know, the strongest tune I ever did in just the simplicity in it.

The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

When we think about the trends that millennials are taking toward simplicity, I think it’s indicative of a cultural shift toward less of the ‘more is more’ for materialism sake and more of an emphasis on efficiency, value, and sustainability.

People understand the simplicity of violence, and martial arts has always been about the more efficient way to deliver said violence upon an adversary. I’ve kept that philosophy as the focal point of what I do.

I like the simplicity of soloing. You’ve got no gear, no partner. You never climb better than when you free-solo.

When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It’s a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It’s a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.

There’s something really appealing about the simplicity of black-and-white images.

The story of technology seems to go up and then retract into simplicity again.

Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.

In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

Clumsiness attempts to fix simplicity straight in the eye. It is not a mark of incompetence but of reticence.

As an Egyptian-American, I want both sides of that hyphen to enjoy the forms of freedom guaranteed by the First Amendment, as I want both sides of that hyphen to move beyond the deceptive simplicity of the question, ‘Why do they hate us?’

Knitwear can play a vital part in layering. The simplicity of a lightweight cardigan makes it one of the best ways to layer outfits. I love granddad cardis for winter, worn over a vintage lace shirt, waistcoat and full skirt with slouchy boots.

I think simplicity is a good guide: The more economical a theory, the better.

As much as we all talk about the future and how so many things are merging, there is a simplicity that is crucial.

I’m the opposite of a gearhead. I like simplicity. I use what works, and the only time I change it is when I have to.

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

I think when you work with people who are super exceptional, there’s simplicity to it because everybody is on the same page in terms of tone.

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.

When Hindustan Motors rolled out the first Ambassador Car in 1957 its sturdy body, rounded contours and Mother Earth simplicity immediately bagged it a place in our collective consciousness.

What makes ‘The Marriage of Souls’ such a wonderful book is Collins’s intricate reconstruction of the late eighteenth-century world. Simplicity and philosophy are the hallmarks of eighteenth-century art and architecture. The classically pure lines look deceptively simple and unburdened by heavy symbolism or imagery.

I compose songs with a lot of simplicity because my school has been the streets, and people have been my books.

Writing that flirts with incoherence can just as readily flounder as writing characterized by simplicity and composure. There is no reliable formula for originality, and strategies that are distinguished as innovative in their first incarnation can quickly become stale in the hands of lesser artists.

I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It’s not super-poetic, it’s just from the heart.

Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child’s eye – it is very beautiful.

A true Christian, who is born anew of the Spirit of Christ, is in the simplicity of Christ, and hath no strife or contention with any man about religion.

I’ve always liked simplicity.

I can do the vocal acrobatics but I really try not to. I’ve always been drawn to singers who sing it like it is, pure, straight down the line: Ella Fitzgerald, Patti Smith, Carole King. Simplicity is really important to me.

Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.

True simplicity is, well, you just keep on going and going until you get to the point where you go, ‘Yeah, well, of course.’ Where there’s no rational alternative.

I grew up in the North-East so identifying with mountain people – their simplicity and honesty – comes naturally to me. I even call myself an honorary Garhwali.

I let Brel into my world. What I like about him is the simplicity of his language. It’s not so simple to be simple.

As a manager, everyone is clambering for you to do something. It comes from the media, the fans, the board and even your own staff sometimes. The strongest thing can be to do nothing and remind the players of the simplicity of the format. The players have taken ownership of that.

Doing film and television demands a kind of simplicity. If you think something differently, the camera will pick it up.

Epic started out with scripting languages in the first generation of the Unreal engine in 1998. I wrote that. There’s a place in my heart that comes along with the simplicity of programming in a scripting language.

I should not romanticize the simplicity of a village. For instance, the place from where I used to buy a packet of glucose biscuits in my village is now selling cellphones.

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.

I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.

Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.

When people ask me where I am from, with artificial simplicity, they don’t understand how convoluted an answer it may sound.

I’m the kind of person who, if I were living in another time, if I had to pick any time, I would probably be a pioneer. I just love the simplicity of what it means to work hard with your hands – to eat and survive.

I loved ‘La La Land.’ I would love to do a film like ‘La La Land’ which has so much simplicity and joy of cinema in it.

We were going for simplicity with the Minions and, frankly, I think that’s a huge appeal of the characters. They’re essentially pills with goggles. A child can draw them quite easily.

Sometimes the simplicity of just declaring who God is and the greatness of who He is… sometimes you just have to say it.

Having done a Dogme film taught me the beauty of simplicity and austerity.