Quotes About Simplicity

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.

This is a matter of freedom. If you don't have many possessions then you don't need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them, and therefore you have more time for yourself.

Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.

One curator said he didn't want my work in his gallery because it was so simple even children understood it. I thought, what a wonderful tribute!

The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer.

Out of clutter, find simplicity.

The simplest things in music are the ones that count. The simplest thing are, of course, also the most difficult to achieve and take years of work.

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.

I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work.

No better love than love with no objective, no more satisfying work than work with no purpose. If you could give up tricks and cleverness, that would be the cleverest trick!

I work within the limits of what I have and know, simplicity and low impact, natural materials and processes, leaving a delicate footprint.

I'm more of a house painter.That's the way I work.

The key is to work out the few things that are really important, and the few methods that will give us what we really want.

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.

To know how to produce a work of art is to know how to discard the extraneous.

Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.

A man ought to live in this world like a lotus leaf, which grows in water but is never moistened by water; so a man ought to live in the world - his heart to God and his hands to work.

I wish I had some interesting stories about living in L.A., but mostly I just do my work and then go home.

Most of us forget the basics and wonder why the specifics don't work.

Whenever there is hard work to be done, I assign it to the laziest man as he is sure to find an easy way of doing it. Be lazy, think crazy.

Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just as profound as the pyramids.

This is the Unix philosophy. Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs that handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.

It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.