Quotes About Simplicity

Beauty is the result of clarity and system and not of optical illusion.

Food, like most things, is best when left to its own simple beauty.

What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.

You do not need to know anything about a plant to know that it is beautiful.

What is beauty, but an extension of modesty?

Clothing should be quieter than the woman so that her true beauty can shine through.

If we spend our days waiting for fabulous roses we could miss the beauty and wonder of the tiny forget-me-nots that are all around us.

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.

Style is to see beauty in modesty.

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

There's beauty all around our paths, If but our watchful eyes Can trace it 'midst familiar things, And through their lowly guise.

Best and dearest flower that grows, / Perfect both to see and smell; / Words can never, never tell / Half the beauty of a Rose - .

Beauty when most unclothed is clothed best.

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

In art economy is always beauty.

What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona, on a hot day in June?

The hallmark of the artist is simplicity.

Simplicity and beauty are the signs not of truth but of a well-constructed approximate model of a limited domain of phenomena.

The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.

...beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.

Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

The thing which we speak of as beauty does not have to be sought in distant lands. . . . It is here about us or it is nowhere.

Every day stop before something beautiful long enough to say, "IsnÂ't that b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l!"

I knew my purpose well and clear: to show how Nature behaves without cluttering its beauty with abtruse mathematics.