“Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.”
“There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.”
“It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.”
“It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.”
“Order and simplification are the first steps towards the mastery of a subject.”
“Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.”
“My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”
“The height of cultivation runs to simplicity. Halfway cultivation runs to ornamentation.”
“I have always observed that to succeed in the world a person must seem simple, yet wise.”
“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.”
“When thought is too weak to be simply expressed, it's clear proof that it should be rejected.”
“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.”
“The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.”
“Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.”
“Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down.”
“Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.”
“Simplicity is the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God, purity unites with and enjoys him.”
“The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.”
“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.”
“The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.”
“I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.”
“No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution.”
“Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.”
“The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.”
“Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.”
“A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it.”
“Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.”
“I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out and sing. In my job I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.”
“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.”
“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.”