Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity. – Frank Lloyd Wright
When I went to Memphis and Mississippi and Nashville, I learnt the blues is a whole way of life. I don’t really have the blues, but I can appreciate the honesty and the simplicity of it. – Gin Wigmore
Simplicity and sexiness, that’s what people want. At a price that’s not outrageous. – Diane von Furstenberg
The principal role of a logo is to identify, and simplicity is its means… Its effectiveness depends on distinctiveness, visibility, adaptability, memorability, universality, and timelessness. – Paul Rand
The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one’s preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them. – Jean Cocteau
James Taylor is the kind of person I always thought the word ‘folksinger’ referred to. He writes and sings songs that are reflections of his own life, and performs in them in his own style. All of his performances are marked by an eloquent simplicity. – Jon Landau
I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity. – John Nelson Darby
Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child’s eye – it is very beautiful. – Kailash Satyarthi
There’s something about approaching universal truths with the simplicity of the acoustic guitar. You can take it anywhere, and it helps me reach listeners of all ages and walks of life. – Jim Croce
Writing that flirts with incoherence can just as readily flounder as writing characterized by simplicity and composure. There is no reliable formula for originality, and strategies that are distinguished as innovative in their first incarnation can quickly become stale in the hands of lesser artists. – Joanna Scott
I just like simplicity. I like simple songs, I like simple chords, simple vocals, simple lead guitar. I just like simplicity. That’s just the way I like it. – Jeremy Spencer
When you come up with a theory, you fall in love with the beauty the simplicity and elegance of it. But then you have to get a sheet of paper and pencil and crack out all the details. Hundreds and hundreds of pages. Because you have to prove it. – Michio Kaku
A short story can be packed with meaning and impact, with the concentrated density of a collapsed star, but should preferably also have a kind of elegant simplicity. – Jeffrey Thomas
The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction – in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint. – Lytton Strachey
The fragrance I always wear is Coco by Chanel. I’ve worn it for 20 years. It suits me, it’s classic, and I like the simplicity of only ever wearing one fragrance. – Jojo Moyes
That the role of size has been to some degree neglected in biology may lie in its simplicity. Size may be a property that affects all of life, but it seems pallid compared to the matter which makes up life. Yet size is an aspect of the living that plays a remarkable, overreaching role that affects life’s matter in all its aspects. – John Tyler Bonner
Men tend to try to struggle to be more rational and reduce things to simplicity more and are more impatient with ambiguity than women are. – John Crowley
The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection. – John Millington Synge
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life. – Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
There was no pomp and ceremony in connection with the birth of Jesus – rather the opposite: it took place in simplicity and in poverty. – Keith O’Brien
As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration. – Laura Nyro
I actually believe in simplicity as a way of life. My wife and I are considering moving into a yurt! – Joseph Monninger
I compose songs with a lot of simplicity because my school has been the streets, and people have been my books. – Juan Gabriel
There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature. – Richard P. Feynman
