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

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Lao Tzu

I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
Yves Saint Laurent

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

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

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

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.
Simon Greenleaf

Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
E. T. A. Hoffmann

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
Lao Tzu

My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.
Hank Stram

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

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

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

One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.
Edward Sapir

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.
Edvard Munch

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
Christian Nestell Bovee

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

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.
Thor Heyerdahl

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.
Thomas Kempis