50 Simplicity Quotes About Life and Arts

1. “Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.” - Natalie Babbitt

2. “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.” - Albert Einstein

3. “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." - E.F. Schumacher

4. "We need much less than we think we need." - Maya Angelou

5. "Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things." - Isaac Newton

6. "When the solution is simple, God is answering." - Albert Einstein

7. “The greatest ideas are the simplest.”- William Golding

8. “Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.” - Isaac Newton

9. “Every solution to every problem is simple. It's the distance between the two where the mystery lies.” - Derek Landy

10. “Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

11. "Simplicity is a key to avoiding complication. Part of the definition of simplicity is 'not complex or complicated; sincere.'" - Joyce Meyer

12. "Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability." - Edsger Dijkstra

13. “Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.” - Ann Voskamp

14. "Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge for." - Chris Sacca

15. "Simplicity should not be identified with bareness." - Felix Adler

1. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” - Confucius

2. "I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures." - Lao Tzu

3. “Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way." - Charles Bukowski

4. “Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify." - David Henry Thoreau

5. "You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need." - Vernon Howard

6. "I feel that the simplicity of life is just being yourself." - Bobby Brown

7. "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

8. “It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.” - Bruce Lee

9. “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

10. “Living simply makes loving simple.” - Bell Hooks

11. “The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.” - Steve Maraboli

12. “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

13. “Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.” - Rousseau Jean-Jacques

14. “Simplify your life. You don't grow spiritual, you shrink spiritual.” - Steve Maraboli

15. "Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough." - Charles Dudley Warner

16. "Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires." - Lao Tzu

17. "We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life." - Paulo Coelho

18. “If something’s not giving you value, consider eliminating it from your life." - Leo Babauta

19. “The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak." - Hans Hofmann

20. “Simplicity is the first cousin of contentment." - John Stott

1. "Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art." - Frank Lloyd Wright

2. "Simplicity is the glory of expression." - Walt Whitman

3. “Complicated seems clever to stupid people”. - Dave Trott

4. “Simplification is often the difference between doing something you know you should do and putting it off." - Scott Adams

5. “Simplicity is the keynote of all elegance”. - Coco Chanel

6. "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." - Leonardo da Vinci

7. "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." - Frederic Chopin

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

9. "Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it'll be good, and the public will know it." - John Wayne

10."Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be." - Paulo Coelho

11. "You can create something strong in art with a few notes. It is like how Aboriginal drawings have a simplicity that is incredibly rich." - Ludovico Einaudi

12. "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

13. "Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life." - Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

14. "The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity." - Walt Whitman

15. “Simplicity is nature’s first step, and the last of art." - Philip James Bailey