Simplicity Quotes - Page 25

To see things simply is the hardest thing in the world.

...it is simplicity that is difficult to make.

Living simply makes loving simple.

Pray silently with simplicity every day to stay cool and calm in mind, composed and collected in heart; courageous and connected to own soul, to lay the way for a peaceful life.

I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.

Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.

The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.

Seek simplicity but distrust it.

Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

Qualities I sought in a scientific theory were naturalness, inner perfection and logical simplicity from an aesthetic approach.

Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.

Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.

Strive for simplicity! Don't have the face a checkerboard of tints! Use such colors as nature uses, but not try to keep them distinct! Your work may be called monotonous, but one tone is better than many which do not harmonize.

Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts; but to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task. Thus it is easy to affect a pompous style, to use a word twice as big as the thing you want to express; it is not so easy to pitch upon the very word that exactly fits it.

To make yourself understood you have to think plain and write plain.

When ideas come, I write them; when they don't come, I don't.

Art, it seems to me, should simplify.

Motivational Quotes on: Honesty, Success, Kind There was a tremendous modesty in the man as he spoke, a quietness and dignity. There was a simplicity and honesty and unselfconsciousness, and a tremendous peace.

The painter who is so enamoured by the beauties of the parts of a landscape, that he strives to represent all, cannot succeed. His picture will be an arrangement of a series of portraits of things without unity... There must be variety and contrast, but in measured doses.

The most interesting studio work, and perhaps the most practicable, is painting from pencil sketches and notes... It ensures the elimination of all facts but those essential to the effect.

We long for simplicity and ordinariness.

You're trying to make your painting too complicated. Paintings get complicated all by themselves.

Simplicity requires ruthlessness.

If thou hadst simplicity and purity, thou wouldst be able to comprehend all things without error, and behold them without danger. The pure heart safely pervades not only heaven, but hell.