Quotes About Simplicity

French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well.

There was no pomp and ceremony in connection with the birth of Jesus - rather the opposite: it took place in simplicity and in poverty.

When you're dressing on a budget, simplicity is key.

Looking back at my earlier pictures, I think that the work is very much coming from the same place. I have gone through a period of challenging myself with a complicated idea to currently challenging myself with the idea of simplicity.

We are so mired in the complexity of our reactions to other people that when you come across someone who is asocial, there is a simplicity that is refreshing.

My ideals told me that men and women could both go out to work and be truly equal. My children told me something more complicated, something I really didn't want to hear. Their need for me was like the need for water or light: it had a devastating simplicity to it.

I've always liked simplicity.

Simplicity, for reasons that are a little bit obscure, is almost not pursued, at least in the academic world.

The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points.

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.

I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.

There's something really appealing about the simplicity of black-and-white images.

Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.

The story of technology seems to go up and then retract into simplicity again.

The thing that I love about pop music is the simplicity and the directness of it.

The commonplace about Italian cooking is that it's very simple; in practice, the simplicity needs to be learned, and the best way to learn it is to go to Italy and see it firsthand.

One thing I've learned over my career is that simplicity is the key: on the field, off as well.

Doing film and television demands a kind of simplicity. If you think something differently, the camera will pick it up.

I think the key to writing hit songs is simplicity.

I've been a huge fan of Marc Jacobs for many, many years, even going back to when I was wearing men's clothing. He captures a kind of simplicity and a kind of beauty that I like - projecting strength through femininity.

It's called 'John Wick' - it's really about this guy's very simple journey. We just didn't want to clutter it. It's gratifying it in its own right, in its simplicity.

I love the optimistic American style that Gap celebrates and the simplicity of the basic white T-shirt that allows you to be yourself.

I'm big on simplicity. I'm not too much on all the extra instruments.

The Delmore Brothers is hit music - very, very popular - and it still retains that rural flavor and simplicity. I always think of it as family music, really, because families sang it.