Quotes About Simplicity

Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.

Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to cover the loss of mystery.

I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass.

Any free meal is a good meal, you know?

My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question.

Our clothing, while modest and simple, should be of good quality . . . It should be chosen for durability rather than display.

I think you have to be much more secure and much less angry to trust the simple. You've got to be in a pretty good place to trust those simple, obvious answers and, most important, to use them.

I feel that all good art is powerful and simple.

There's no point in bragging in the good times. Your friends don't need to hear it and your enemies won't believe it anyway.

Find godliness and good will come on its own accord. And when good comes on its own accord, it has a beauty, a grace, a simplicity, a humbleness.

We call things we don't understand complex, but that means we haven't found a good way of thinking about them.

I do feel that, generally, people will see me and go, "He knows where the good food is," which is an awesome correlative. It's an awesome simplification.

All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between meals was also suitable.

Good things happen when you narrow your focus.

I think having simplicity doesn't always mean that you make a good movie. I have a theory that a movie that's easy to make is hard to watch.

For it is characteristic of true simplicity that there may radiate from its utmost directness a good many glinting things.

It confuses me that Christian living is not simpler. The gospel, the very good news, is simple.

[The people that worked on The Simpsons] just had good taste. They knew how to execute absurd jokes.

I like garage band for writing because you only have crayons and there are only five crayons in the box. Your choices are limited and I find that to be very good for me.

If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed.

50 Words of Snow just didn't seem to have the complications that quite a lot of albums have. It felt to me like it had this very good flow of energy.

Good design is being able to put a $100,000 thing next to a $20 thing. If it looks right and it works then it works. It doesn't have to be expensive; it's all about the high meets low for me.

Good wine needs no bush; a jug is the thing.

The things I care about are the most pedestrian things in the world. I care about good ice cream and being a good dad and a decent husband.