Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ( Leonardo da Vinci)

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

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. ( Albert Einstein )

How many things are there which I do not want. (Socrates)

A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life. ( Winston Churchill)

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be. (Jim Horning)

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness. ( Henry David Thoreau)

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth. ( Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy)


“Nothing is true, but that which is simple. ( Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity. (Plato)

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)