Quotes by Simplicity The minimum could be defined as the perfection that an artefact achieves when it is no longer possible to improve it by subtraction. This is the quality that an object has when every component, every detail, and every junction has been reduced or condensed to the essentials. it is the result of the omission of the inessentials. John Pawson omissionsimplicityperfection The greatest artists always come round to simplicity. John Lennon simplicityroundsartist Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such insistence that the public has begun to believe the lack of clarity must be a sign of artistic talent. John Ralston Saul artisticsimplicitybelieve Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness. John Ruskin consumerismsimplicityworkout The simplicity of photography lies in the fact that it is very easy to make a picture. The staggering complexity of it lies in the fact that a thousand other pictures of the same subject would have been equally easy. John Szarkowski simplicityphotographylying Simplicity is the first cousin of contentment. John Stott cousinsimplicitycontentment 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 datasimplicitythinking Nothing is true, but that which is simple. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe simplicitysimple Always remember the essence of Christian holiness is simplicity and purity: one design, one desire: entire devotion to God. John Wesley simplicityessencechristian 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 simplicitytruthmen Out of the freedom from worry that God's generosity provides comes an impulse toward simplicity rather than accumulation. John Piper generositysimplicityworry It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated. John Ruskin simplicitysimplecomplicated Don't let go of the vine. Johnny Weissmuller vinessimplicityletting-go The very longing for contentment that ought to drive us to simplicity of life and labors of love contents itself instead with the broken cisterns of prosperity and comfort. John Piper simplicitycontentmentbroken God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe simplicitysimplemen Truth defies simplicity. John Green simplicityreal Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance. Jon Franklin simplicitydesigninspiring The little things? The little moments? They aren't little. Jon Kabat-Zinn simplicityinspiringlife Stupid truth, always resisting simplicity John Green resistingsimplicitystupid Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more. Jon Kabat-Zinn simplicitysimplemean«2324252627282930313233»
