Music … can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable - Leonard Bernstein Use as many pixels as you need, in whatever way you need, to facilitate the communication that needs to happen - Web 2.0 Design Style Guide Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity - Charles Mingus There are simple things. There are simpler things. There are more simpler things. @tobto The simplest things give me ideas - Joan Miro The height of cultivation runs to Simplicity. Halfway cultivation runs to ornamentation - Bruce Lee How difficult it is to be simple - Vincent Van Gogh Be in this moment - Twitter CEO Dick Costolo The most complex things are the simplest - Agni Celeste You’ve got to be a minimalist to be a maximalist; if you want to be really good at, master, and thoroughly enjoy one thing, you’ve got to say no to many others. - Michael Joyner Less is more. God is in the details - Mies van der Rohe A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long - Delacroix Borders make a flow - @tobto Digital media is not a physical medium. It is just set of bytes - @tobto Silent and serene, forgetting words, bright clarity appears before you - Hongzhi Zhengjue Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it - Descartes Simplicity is the Ultimate Sophistication - Leonardo da Vinci Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings - Robert Collier God always takes the simplest way - Einstein The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts - Willard Gibbs Everything is simpler than you think and yet more complex than you imagine. The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity - Walt Whitman Simplicity is the 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 - Frederic Chopin With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy - Lope de Vega I find working with glass meditative, almost therapeutic. I can leave the world behind, and focus... The simplicity of form, the drama of rich, intense colour, the joy of challenge, and the challenge of endurance... The piece, when it is over, is not what is made, but how it is made - Andrew Kuntz Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art - Frank Lloyd Wright When speech comes from a quiet heart, it has the strength of the orchid, and the fragrance of rock - Stephen Mitchell 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 The aspects of things that are most important to us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity - Ludwig Wittgenstein Simplicity, carried to an extreme, becomes elegance - Jon Franklin The point in life is to know what's enough - why envy those otherwold immortals? With the happiness held in one inch-square heart you can fill the whole space between heaven and earth - Gensei The empty garden is already full - Michael P. Garofalo To know you have enough is to be rich - Lao-Tzu The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak - Hans Hofmann To lose patience is to lose the battle - Mahatma Gandhi Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy - Richard Halloway To see things simply is the hardest thing in the world - Charles Hawthorne You can paint an entire painting with one stroke - Quang Ho Never put more than two waves in a picture; it's fussy - Winslow Homer Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer - Paul Klee With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials - Henri Matisse By painting a thing as simply as possible, you can get to the spirit of it. And then subject and artist reveal themselves to each other - Charles Movalli My ability to see the world in terms of abstract shapes and patterns of color and value is due to my work on location, where I quickly learned that I must simplify "things" into "shapes" - Randall Sexton What I wish to do is make painting objective, to bring it back to its source – where only painting remains, emptied of all extraneous matter – to the point at which painting is pure sensation...to say as much as possible with as few elements as possible - Claude Tousignant How do we find simplicity and direct purpose in the midst of chaotic communication? By learning to subtract the distractions, by shaking the dust off the crystal, by seeing through the invisible, briefly, focusing on the focus point... - Mona Youssef Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute - Josh Billings Simplicity is graceful, unambiguous and careless - tobto Obvious things are perceived is not obvious - tobto before you start to do something, you should consider what not to do. @tobto my skin - a membrane between outer and inner. where I am?