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Simplicity Quotes

Saying less, and meaning more.

A preference for using only what works and changing it only when necessary sits alongside a claim that plainness is itself the highest form of expression. The theme extends into our Suvichar collection as well.

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I think that we're always drawn - particularly sophisticated people - are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.

Quotes by Adam Gopnik

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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.

Quotes by William Shenstone

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No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.

Quotes by William Kingdon Clifford

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The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which employments of a more precarious and casual nature are subject.

Quotes by William Falconer

Clarity Quotes

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What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer.

Quotes by William Albert Allard

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And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.

Quotes by Will Wright

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I'm the opposite of a gearhead. I like simplicity. I use what works, and the only time I change it is when I have to.

Quotes by Wayne Static

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

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Simplicity is the glory of expression.

Walt Whitman

Emotion Quotes

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Looking back at my earlier pictures, I think that the work is very much coming from the same place. I have gone through a period of challenging myself with a complicated idea to currently challenging myself with the idea of...

Quotes by Tim Walker

A further contrast is drawn between grandeur and simplicity, noting how increasing one often diminishes the other. Related reading appears in our Clarity and Anmol Vachan pages.