Simplicity is the exact medium
between too little and too much.
-Joshua Reynolds
The obvious is that which is never seen
until someone expresses it simply.
-Rabindranath Tagore
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary
so that the necessary may speak.
-Hans Hofmann
Everything should be made as simple as possible,
and not simpler.
-Albert Einstein
"Think simple" as my old master used to say -
meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms,
getting back to first principles.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
One needs to look so deeply at things
that they become simple.
-Konrad Adenauer
Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol
of depth of thought.
-Lin Yutang
Out of intense complexities
simplicities emerge.
-Winston Churchill
Life is not complex. We are complex.
Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.
-Oscar Wilde
Making the simple complicated is commonplace;
making the complicated simple, awesomely simple,
that's creativity.
-Charles Mingus Jr.
The highest thing is the simplest.
-Chinese Saying

The highest is the simplest,
but the simplest is also the most difficult.
-Chinese Saying
Make no mistake,
I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort.
-Clarice Lispector
By understanding
everything becomes simple.
-Rodney Collin
As you simplify your life,
the laws of the universe will be simpler.
-Henry David Thoreau
God always takes the simplest way.
-Albert Einstein
Anything simple always interests me.
-David Hockney
Simplicity is white light.
It is complex, but its complexity is not obvious.
-Anatole France
Simplicity is nature and truth.
-William Danby
Nature is pleased with simplicity.
-Isaac Newton
Simplicity is nature's first step,
and the last of art.
-Philip James Bailey
Simplicity is the living beauty.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
The simplest things are often the truest.
-Richard Bach
Really true, good, and great things
are always simple.
-Leo Tolstoy
That which is most precious and true
is always simple.
-Ann Mortifee
It is the sweet, simple things of life
which are the real ones after all.
-Laura Ingalls Wilder
In actual life
it requires the greatest art to be simple.
-Carl Jung
Be as simple as you can be;
you'll be astonished to see
how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.
-Yogananda
A man who has begun to live more seriously within
begins to live more simply without.
-Ernest Hemingway
Simplicity is an uprightness of soul
that has no reference to self.
-Francois Fenelon
Simplicity is the nature of great souls.
-Papa Ramdas
Nothing is more simple than greatness;
indeed, to be simple is to be great.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest truths are the simplest;
and so are the greatest men.
-Augustus William Hare
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
-Leonardo da Vinci
It is always the simple
that produces the marvelous.
-Amelia E. Barr
Beauty of style and grace
and harmony and good rhythm
depend on simplicity.
-Plato
The art of art, the glory of expression
and the sunshine of the light of letters,
is simplicity.
-Walt Whitman
Simplicity is the highest goal,
achievable when you have overcome all difficulties.
-Frederic Chopin
Simplicity is not a goal,
but one arrives at simplicity in spite of oneself,
as one approaches the real meaning of things.
-Herbert Read
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in the world;
it is the last limit of experience
and the last effort of genius.
-George Sand
Simplicity is the flower
that brings the intellect to its knees.
-Alan Cohen
How desirable is this simplicity!
Who will give it to me?
I will quit all else.
It is the pearl of great price.
-Francois Fenelon
Simplicity is a jewel rarely found.
-Ovid
How many undervalue simplicity!
But it is the real key to the heart.
-William Wordsworth
The only simplicity that matters
is the simplicity of the heart.
-Gilbert K. Chesterton
What is simplicity?
It is to live; only to live but live divinely.
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
Quick now, here, now, always -
A condition of complete simplicity
(Costing not less then everything)
-T. S. Eliot
Cultivate simplicity.
-Charles Lamb
Simply be simple.
-Hugh Prather
Simplify, simplify.
-Henry David Thoreau
Above all,
keep it simple.
-Auguste Escoffier
In all things,
the supreme excellence is simplicity.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Simple is the spirit
-The Oculatum
Simplicity, simplicity!
How sweet is the purity of Thy Presence!
-Mirra Alfassa, "The Mother"