Simplicity In Art Quotes:

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

- Douglas Horton

topic: Art, Simplicity, Favourite, Puzzled, Puzzling

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

- Walt Whitman

topic: Happiness, Art, Sunshine, Inspirational Art, Creative Artists

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

- Hans Hofmann

source: 1967 Search for the Real.

topic: Inspirational, Business, Mean, Software Design, Life And Living

Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

- Albrecht Durer

topic: Art, Simplicity, Adornment, Simplicity In Art

Focus and simplicity...once you get there, you can move mountains.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Life Lesson, Moving, Simple, Complex Systems, Success Mantra

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Inspirational Life, Kids, Writing, Writing Stories, Writing Voice

The simplest things are often the truest.

- Richard Bach

topic: Simplicity, Environment, Minimalism, Simple Things, Living A Simple Life

Simplicity is the final achievement.

- Frederic Chopin

source: "If Not God, Then What? Neuroscience, Aesthetics, and the Origins of the Transcendent". Book by Joshua Fost (p. 93), November 16, 2007.

topic: Simplicity, Design, Achievement, Life Is Simple, Notes Music

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

- Philip James Bailey

source: Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.458

topic: Motivational, Art, Simplicity, Simplicity In Art, Simplicity In Design

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

topic: Inspiring, Moving, Inspiration, Inspiring Change, Design Work

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

- Frank Lloyd Wright

source: "In the Cause of Architecture".

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Art, Repose, True Value

Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Life, Business, Simple, Life Is Complicated, Life Is Simple

Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Peace, Inspiration And Motivation, Programming Languages

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.

- Albrecht Durer

topic: Art, Simplicity, Form, Adornment, Simplicity In Art

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

- Laozi

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Patience, Life Is Simple, Greatest Treasure

I despise simplicity. It is the negation of all that is beautiful.

- Norman Hartnell

topic: Beautiful, Simplicity, Despise, Simplicity In Art

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

- Alexander Pope

source: Alexander Pope (1806). “The works of Alexander Pope. Containing the principal notes of drs. Warburton and Warton [&c.]. To which are added, some original letters, with additional observations, and memoirs, by W.L. Bowles”, p.64

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Simplicity, Simplicity In Art

When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Strong, Simplicity, Way, Simplicity In Art

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

- Norman Vincent Peale

topic: Motivational, Struggle, Simplicity, Simplicity In Art

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

- Alan Perlis

source: "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.

topic: Simplicity, Doe, Complexity, Pragmatists, Simple And Complex

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

topic: Art, Real, Self, Simplicity In Art

If one's life is simple, contentment has to come.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Life Is Simple, Protect Yourself, Living A Simple Life, Simple Living, Contentment And Peace

Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation.

- Richard Holloway

source: "God's Priorities for Your Life for Teens". 2006.

topic: Inspirational, Art, Giving, Singleness, Purpose Of God

To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art.

- Oliver Goldsmith

source: Oliver Goldsmith, Walter MACLEOD (of the Royal Military Asylum, Chelsea.) (1858). “Goldsmith's Deserted village, with remarks on the analysis of sentences, exercises in parsing, notes ... and a life of the poet ... By Walter M'Leod”, p.71

topic: Art, Simplicity, Charm, Gloss, Simplicity In Art

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

- Lin Yutang

source: Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

topic: Motivational, Art, Inspirational Life, Life Is Simple, Life Wisdom

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

- Charles Dudley Warner

source: Charles Dudley Warner “The Complete Works of Charles Dudley Warner”, Library of Alexandria

topic: Life, Simple, Journey, Life Is Simple, Living A Simple Life

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

- George Sand

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Simplicity, Simplicity In Art

As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration.

- Laura Nyro

topic: Beautiful, Simplicity, Way, Simplicity In Art

Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.

- Paul Rand

topic: Inspirational, Ideas, Goal, Inspirational Design, Good Design

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

topic: Art, Lying, Expression, Martial Arts Inspirational, Kung Fu