A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.

Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.

Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.

A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer.

Not only can color which is under fixed laws be taught like music but it is easier to learn than drawing whose elaborate principles cannot be taught.

God is that inner presence which makes us admire the beautiful and consoles us for not sharing the happiness of the wicked.

Give me some mud, and I will paint you a woman's flesh.

A taste for simplicity cannot last for long.

And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee.

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

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

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.

Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.

So with that will prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, I will speak of three things with simplicity and love as if I were speaking to my own soul.

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

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

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.

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

Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well.

Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity.

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.

They are unique in the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life that they enclose.

Simplicity makes me happy.

No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.

I despise simplicity. It is the negation of all that is beautiful.

The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.

Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.

In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science.

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

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

The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.

These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages.

A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.

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.

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function.

I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.