Quotes About Simplicity

While I've lived in cities for most of my adult life, I really prefer the quiet, boring, mundanity of the country. It's the best place for me to work, think, and invent.

Believe it or not, I don't own a TV. Crazy huh? I'm not a big movie-goer either. I just feel like I'm watching work. I am always outside and couldn't care less about what's on TV these days.

People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.

That's what we're all sort of trying to do in our lives - to make the simplest things work out the best.

I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

A rain-tight roof, frugal living, a box of colors, and God's sunlight through clear windows keep the soul attuned and the body vigorous for one's daily work.

My job ... I do nothing, it pays nothing, but - you guessed it - it's better than nothing.

I like to work with children because their way of reacting to the world is simple, and they are innocent.

It has taken me 20 years to eliminate the unnecessary elements from my work.

I love going to writers' colonies in pastoral settings where there's nothing to do, but either walk around or read a book or work on your book.

I work mornings only. I go out to lunch. Afternoons I play with the baby, walk with my husband, or shovel mail.

The paradox of simplicity is that making things simpler is hard work.

You don't have to have all this film stock, you can work faster, and you don't need a giant crew. It's great.

I don't want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.

So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.

Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.

The computer seems easy because Apple makes the products so easy to use at home. It's the simple things, like getting the TV set up or getting the speakers to work. That drives me crazy.

Call me a troglodyte; I'd rather peruse those photos alongside my sweetheart, catch the newspaper on the way to work, and page thorough a real book.

I would love to work with Adam Sandler. Because then all I'd have to do is just turn the camera on and off.

We are stuck with technology when all we really want is just stuff that works. How do you recognize something that is still technology? A good clue is if it comes with a manual.

Anytime I write something that's trying to be too smart, it doesn't work.

I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work.

I work very hard to achieve simplicity, which is never natural, never spontaneous. It's always obtained at the price of a great effort.

A little oil makes machinery work easy.