Quotes About Simplicity

Don't wish for "secrets" of the masters, either. There are none worth fooling with. They had no special mediums or paints, nor special brushes that made their work great.

The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.

Life is so simple when you're just doing your job.

People are realizing that what seemed important to them in their lives-materialism and consumerism-doesn't work at all to make a happy heart. It actually makes an unhappy heart. And an unhappy world.

What's the simplest thing that could possibly work?

The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command.

Technology should do the hard work so people can do the things that make them the happiest in life.

So little time and so little to do.

When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical nature and the simplicity of his work that really hit me.

Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.

Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.

Something deep within me connected with hard work, nature and simplicity.

The work I care about is terribly simple. I observe. I try to entertain. But above all I want my pictures to be emotional. Little else interests me in photography.

Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white... to highlight that contrast.

I don't need to have three feather pillows in my trailer. I just don't work that way.

By slowing down at the right moments, people find that they do everything better: They eat better; they make love better; they exercise better; they work better; they live better.

Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them.

A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.

Mathematics is being lazy. Mathematics is letting the principles do the work for you so that you do not have to do the work for yourself

We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.

We should work for simple, good, undecorated things

I don't have lights, I don't have assistants, I just go and meet somebody and take a photograph. That's really basic, and that's how I used to work when I was 17 or 18 in Holland.

I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass - which is better than trying to fill them.

I need my products to work and be fast! I don't love having 50 different things in my bathroom, like a different cream for every inch of my face. That's so not me.