Simple Quotes

The following are 14 of the best quotes on the topic of Simplicity I've collected over the years. I hope they could inspire you when problems seem a little too complicated to solve at times-as much as they did for me. And in the process improve your design.

14 Quotes on "Simplicity" by the Greatest Thinkers of All Time

• "The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak." ~ Hans Hofmann
• "The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials." ~ Lin Yutang
• "There is no greatness where there is no simplicity." ~ Leo Tolstoy
• "Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance." ~ Jon Franklin
• "The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply." ~ Kahlil Gibran
• "It is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity; nothing is better than simplicity." ~ Walt Whitman
• "Simplicity is an exact medium between too little and too much." ~ Sir Joshua Reynolds
• "Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction." ~ W. Somerset Maugham
• "Confusion and clutter are the failure of design, not the attributes of information." ~ Edward R. Tufte
• "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." ~ Leonardo da Vinci
• "Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple." ~ C.W. Ceram
• "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." ~ Albert Einstein
• "Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge." ~ Winston Churchill