Quotes: Simplicity

Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.

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

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.

I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity.

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.

Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one’s self by entering into the real sense of things.

The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection.

A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him.

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