Quotes About Simplicity

Life has to be described in pure and simple physical and physiological terms. It must be demystified and depsychologised

I painted the lines and colours that affected my inner eye. I painted from memory without adding anything, without the details that I no longer saw in front of me. This is the reason for the simplicity of the painting, their obvious emptiness. I painted the impressions of my childhood, the dull colours of a forgotten day.

I know only two tunes. One of them is 'Yankee Doodle' the other isn't.

Quel contadino si affida alla medaglia di Sant'Antonio e va leggero Ma ben sola e ben nuda senza miraggio porto la mia anima

If the human brain were simple enough to understand, we'd be so simple we couldn't.

Life would be much easier if I had the source code.

A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.

Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice.

Never lose sight of the importance of a beautiful sunrise, Or watching your kids sleep, or the smell of rain. It's often the little things that really matter in life.

Never make anything simple and efficient when a way can be found to make it complex and wonderful.

Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.

We are men without ambition, and all we want is to be left alone, in peace so that we can try and be happy. So few people will understand this simplicity.

The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

All religions will pass, but this will remain: simply sitting in a chair and looking in the distance.

Isn't simplification sometimes impoverishment? How to convey the richness of the message with a poverty of symbols. If we oversimplify the form, don't we kill the content?

Seek beauty in simplicity, not in complexity.

Sometimes, the only things that make you feel good are the same ones that worked when you were five. Yes, I slammed the door

sometime when your life is so good, you'll want to make your happiness as simple as possible.

Andrei walked a lot: this was the best and most pleasant state for him--to be walking, to move no matter where. Thoughts are simpler when you walk, and you can amuse them with what you see along the way

Life was life so that it could go on, it could take everything and survive anywhere, even on bare rock or shifting sands, and if necessary, even under water, but why torture it this way for no good reason, creating totally unnecessary difficulties for people, why worry about small conveniences and create major inconveniences?

Take everything that's yours with you, don't save any -- it won't be needed later.

Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.

As against having beautiful workshops, studios, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.

The wise person is the one who, like the child, lives entirely in the present, unburdened by the memories of the past