Simplicity

The ultimate sophistication achieved through hard work

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.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

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

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

The simplest things are often the truest.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.

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

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

The simplest explanation is usually the right one.

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

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

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.