#simplicity

And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity. ↗

— Will Wright

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Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully? ↗

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

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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

#guitar #i #just #lead #lead guitar

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#ambition #american #common #effect #faults

I like simplicity; I don't need luxury. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

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A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long. ↗

— Eugene Delacroix

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A rose lay open in full bloom and, looking from my garden room, I watched the sun-baked flower fill with rain. It seemed so fragile, resting there, and such a silence filled the air, the beauty of the moment caused me pain. "What more?" I thought. "There must be more." As if in answer then, I saw one weighty drop that caused my rose to fall. It trembled, then cascaded down to earth just staining gentle brown and, since then, I've felt different. That's all. ↗

— Julie Andrews

#poetry #pondering #simplicity #beauty

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art. ↗

— Albrecht Durer

#art #better #forms #genuine #greatest

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#down #ideas #itself #jot #just

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#character #excellence #manners #simplicity #style