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Top 28 Quotes on Simplicity
The document presents 28 curated quotes about simplicity from various influential figures, emphasizing its importance in art, leadership, and life. Notable contributors include Coco Chanel, Einstein, and Steve Jobs, each highlighting simplicity as a profound yet often underestimated quality. The overall message reinforces that simplicity is essential for clarity and effectiveness in communication and design.
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Top 28 Quotes on Simplicity
- 1. 28 Quotes on Simplicity MargaretMolloy Global CMO Siegel+Gale @MargaretMolloy
- 2. At Siegel+Gale, weoften think of simplicity as creating brand experiences that are remarkably clear and unexpectedly fresh. Of course, simplicity is not a new trend. Gathered here are 28 of my favorite quotes on what simplicity means to some of the most inspiring artists, poets, philosophers, visionaries, and leaders throughout the course of time. Margaret Molloy Global CMO Siegel+Gale @MargaretMolloy
- 3. “Simplicity is thekeynote of all true elegance.” Coco Chanel
- 4. Frederic Chopin “Simplicity isthe final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.”
- 5. Isaac Newton “Nature is pleasedwith simplicity. And nature is no dummy.”
- 6. Lao Tzu “I havejust three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.”
- 7. Leonardo da Vinci “Simplicityis the ultimate sophistication”
- 8. Plato “Beauty of styleand harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity”
- 9. Steve Jobs “That’s beenone of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex…”
- 10. Vince Lombardi “Mental toughnessis many things. It is humility because it behooves all of us to remember that simplicity is the sign of greatness and meekness is the sign of true strength.”
- 11. Walt Whitman “The artof art, the glory of expression, and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity.
- 12. Winston Churchill “A vocabularyof truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.”
- 13. Albert Einstein “Everything should bemade as simple as possible, but not simpler.”
- 14. Eleanor Roosevelt “A littlesimplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think”
- 15. Francis Ford Coppola “Ilike simplicity; I don’t need luxury.”
- 16. Neil Degrasse Tyson “Someof the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.”
- 17. General Colin Powell “Greatleaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.”
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- 19. Tim Cook “We haveone hardware organization. We have one software organization. It’s not like we’re this big company with all these divisions that are cranking out products. We’re simpletons.”
- 20. Joshua Reynolds “Simplicity isan exact medium between too little and too much.”
- 21. Joseph Brackett “Tis thegift to be simple, Tis the gift to be free…”
- 22. "Simplicity is achoice, a discrimination, a crystallization. Its object is purity.” Le Corbusier
- 23. "The ability tosimplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” Hans Hofmann
- 24. Charles Mingus “Making the simple complicatedis commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.”
- 25. William Golding “The greatest ideasare the simplest.”
- 26. Albert Einstein “Three rulesof work: out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
- 27. Paulo Coelho “The coreof beauty is simplicity”
- 28. Oscar Wilde “I havethe simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
- 29. Charles Péguy “It isthe essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.”
- 30. “Simple is always stylish,never trendy” Margaret Molloy Global CMO Siegel+Gale @MargaretMolloy
- 31. Siegel+Gale is aglobal brand strategy, design and experience firm. Using facts, intuition and creativity, we blend science with art, unlocking the power of simplicity to help organizations realize their full potential.