A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French aristocrat, writer, poet, and pioneering aviator. Best known as the author of the novella The Little Prince.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein
That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
Steve Jobs
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
Yves Saint Laurent
Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.
Paulo Coelho
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
Isaac Newton
Simplicity makes me happy.
Alicia Keys
I like simplicity; I don't need luxury.
Francis Ford Coppola
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
Frank Lloyd Wright
They say a great sculptor sculpts an elephant by taking away everything that isn't elephant. I think paring a body of knowledge or a series of movements down to their most essential elements creates something elegant. And, in so doing, we clarify our understanding of that knowledge or movement.
Some quotes on my list of quotes about Simplicity :):
"When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong." - R. Buckminster Fuller
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary - Pablo Picasso
The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is. - Pablo Picasso
Some random quotes about simplicity:
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French aristocrat, writer, poet, and pioneering aviator. Best known as the author of the novella The Little Prince.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein
That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
Steve Jobs
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
Yves Saint Laurent
Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.
Paulo Coelho
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
Isaac Newton
Simplicity makes me happy.
Alicia Keys
I like simplicity; I don't need luxury.
Francis Ford Coppola
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
Frank Lloyd Wright
They say a great sculptor sculpts an elephant by taking away everything that isn't elephant. I think paring a body of knowledge or a series of movements down to their most essential elements creates something elegant. And, in so doing, we clarify our understanding of that knowledge or movement.
Some quotes on my list of quotes about Simplicity :):
"When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong." - R. Buckminster Fuller
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary - Pablo Picasso
The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is. - Pablo Picasso