Quotes About Simplicity

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

Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

He who would travel happily must travel light.

Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

It is unfortunate that we try to solve the simplest questions cleverly, and therefore make them unusually complicated. We should seek a simple solution.

The person who wants nothing, hopes for nothing, and fears nothing can never be an artist.

When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.

The more simply we look at ticklish questions, the more placid will be our lives and relationships.

When a man spends the least possible number of movements over one definite action, that is grace.

Sometimes people have the idea that art should be highly refined. But I always believed that one could make art out of simple, humble things. Small things can be transcendental. They can change our way of looking at the world. I think it's important to make art out of almost anything.

The advice to simplify our lives brings to mind William Morris' dictum that we should have nothing in our houses that we don't know to be useful or believe to be beautiful. More recently, Marie Kondo has suggested that unless an object 'sparks joy' in our heart, we should get rid of it.

Even to know that delight, in a perfect world, would be the proper response to life is a simplicity beyond most of us.

I prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born.

In the end it had all been too simple, too easy. But I feared my good fortune.

Happiness is realizing that nothing is too important.

Mi manera de amarte es sencilla: te aprieto a mí como si hubiera un poco de justicia en mi corazón y yo te la pudiese dar con el cuerpo.

Huye de la ciudad... Pobres maldades, misérrimas virtudes y quehaceres de chulos aburridos, y ruindades de ociosos mercaderes.

Huye de la ciudad. ¡El tedio urbano! — ¡carne triste y espíritu villano!—.

PROVERBIOS Y CANTARES XXVI Poned sobre los campos un carbonero, un sabio y un poeta. Veréis cómo el poeta admira y calla, el sabio mira y piensa... Seguramente, el carbonero busca las moras o las setas. LlevadIos al teatro y sólo el carbonero no bosteza. Quien prefiere lo vivo a lo pintado es el hombre que piensa, canta o sueña. El carbonero tiene llena de fantasías la cabeza.

And when the day arrives for the final voyage and the ship of no return is set to sail, you'll find me aboard, traveling light, almost naked, like the children of the sea.

When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest.

La vita deve essere bella e semplice, là - disse lui. Lei annuì e sorrise: "Forse perché non è la nostra." (...) E' quello che vorrei" disse lui (...), "una vita felice perchè non nostra".

A volte una soluzione sembra plausibile solo in questo modo: sognando. Forse perché la ragione è pavida, non riesce a riempire i vuoti fra le cose, a stabilire la completezza, che è una forma di semplicità, preferisce una complicazione piena di buchi, e allora la volontà affida la soluzione al sogno.