Simplicity

Hans Hoffman, artist: The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

Leonardo da Vinci: Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

John Cheney, poet: The happiest heart that ever beat / Was in some quiet breast / That found the common daylight sweet, / And left the rest to God.

Japanese proverb: A garden is perfect not when nothing more can be added, but when nothing more can be taken away.

E. F. Schumacher, economist: Any third-rate engineer or researcher can increase complexity; but it takes a certain flair of real insight to make things simple again.

Charles Mingus, musician: Making the simple complicated is commonplace, making the complicated simple -- that's creativity.

Doris Janxen Lonacre, author: The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple.