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• Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Simple, Two, Nails

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.144

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• The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Nature, Noble

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook H 1, 1799.

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• Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Life, Simple, Journey

  Charles Dudley Warner “The Complete Works of Charles Dudley Warner”, Library of Alexandria

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• It doesn't matter how high you lift your leg. The technique is about transparency, simplicity, making an earnest attempt.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Dance, Legs, Matter

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• Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort. To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.

  Seneca the Younger

  Luxury, People, Effort

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• True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Elegance, Approach

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• When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Success, Weak, Should

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 1919.

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• The motif must always be set down in a simple way, easily grasped and understood by the beholder. By the elimination of superfluous detail, the spectator should be led along the road that the artist indicates to him, and from the first be made to notice what the artist has felt.

  Alfred Sisley

  Artist, Simple, Details

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• To be simple is not always as easy as it seems.

  Ferdinand Hodler

  Simple, Easy, Seems

  "Die Kunst Ferdinand Hodlers". Book by Ewald: Bender, 1923.

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• When you lose your simplicity, you lose your drama.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Drama, Loses

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• The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Scales, Humans

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.98, Vintage

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• Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

  George Sand

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Effort

  George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.355, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me.

  Linda McCartney

  Needs, Answers, Simplifying Life

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• Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

  Jim Horning

  Simple

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• It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Too Much, Enough, Simplify

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.53, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Simplicity is the law of nature for men as well as for flowers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Flower, Men, Law

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Green Thoreau: America's First Environmentalist on Technology, Possessions, Livelihood, and More”, p.72, New World Library

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• 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

  Giving, Pearls, Quitting

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• It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

  John Ruskin

  Sacrifice, Simple, Skills

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• Technical skill is mastery of complexity, while creativity is mastery of simplicity.

  Christopher Zeeman

  Truth, Creativity, Knowledge

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• The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Beautiful, Art, Block

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1902). “The Philistine”

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• Focus and simplicity...once you get there, you can move mountains.

  Steve Jobs

  Life Lesson, Moving, Simple

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• Albert Durer, the famous painter, used to say he had no pleasure in pictures that were painted with many colors, but in those which were painted with a choice simplicity. So it is with me as to sermons.

  Martin Luther

  Color, Choices, Pleasure

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• I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.

  Henry James

  Hate, Names, Usa

  Henry James (1974). “Letters”, p.31, Harvard University Press

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• Anything simple always interests me.

  David Hockney

  Simple, Interest

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• To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life.

  John Burroughs

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Morning

  John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.242, Syracuse University Press

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