Quotes About Simplicity

I'm not someone who chases illusions.

I try to be as clear and simple as I can be in my illustrations so that the child can tell what is going on and what the emotions are.

I definitely live to eat. I love food in every way imaginable, and it does not have to be fancy. Whether we stay in or go out, I like a hardy meal. My grandmother taught me how to cook, and it was all about no fuss and lots of it.

You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.

The dumber the thing is, the more excitement I get from imagining a very complex world of truth around it.

I certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy.

I love watching Billy Bob, just as a punter anyway. I like his work. But working with him is really easy and really straight-forward. He's immediately good. He doesn't have to work up to it. He doesn't make your life difficult. He listens. He's a very good listener, in terms of his acting.

We can do things that are very, very simple to us that can have a huge impact on others.

I'm a fast and impatient dresser, so I can't dress myself up for too long. I don't even need a lot of makeup, so I'm usually ready in about half an hour.

Clarity is important. Part of what I'm trying to do with some of these pictures is eliminate as much of the potential, as many kind of readings as people might want to make, as possible.

The most important things in life have nothing to do with things.

I have rooms full of little dongly things and don't want any more. Half the little dongly things I've got, I don't even know what gizmo they're for. More importantly, half the gizmos I've got, I don't know where their little dongly thing is.

To grow up under really simple circumstances, and to understand that certain things were ornamental... that made an impression on me as a child and is something I use.

Almost everything The Beatles did was great, and it's hard to improve on. They were our Bach. The way to get around it may be to keep it as simple as possible.

The rule of improvisation I took to heart was, 'Don't think.' I tend to over-think things, so that was a big lesson for me.

In the beginning, I tried to be a more cosmopolitan writer, but I realized that I was a country boy, and I had to deal with things I knew about and where I came from.

It isn't too bad for me as when I don't have a beehive, I can go incognito in my scruffs.

In an increasingly complex world, we have a simple and bold vision that all children should have the opportunity to grow up healthy.

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.

Die Liebe macht offenbar kindisch.

I know from experience that people sometimes struggle with this, not because it's complicated but because it's simple. It's too simple. Their project is special, after all, or so they think, and this process doesn't emphasize that, so they complicate the process.

Small is good. For one thing, small projects can be simple.

It's relatively easy to build something small and simple.

Great big houses with great big rooms Were not fashioned for brides and grooms A little place is where we should be Great big troubles and great big cares Come from houses with marble stairs A little place for you and for me