Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.

I don't like directing a lot of people. So trying to keep things really simple and elegant is my preferred way of working.

For Blanc & Eclare, we go by the motto 'modern classic,' and that kind of comes from me because I don't like to overdo things and I try to be as natural as possible.

I really believe in less is more. It's more sophisticated to look look and fresh and make a statement in one place.

The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.

With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is.

Generally, I am opposed to painting which is concerned with conceptions of simplicity. Everything looks busy to me.

Moby lives the simplest of any person I think I know.

Simplicity is not the absence of clutter.

I really like the idea of banality and repetition being used to generate the image, which are simple and unobstructed and not captivated by composition.

The essential thing is to etch movements in the sky, movements so still they leave no trace. The essential thing is simplicity. / That is why the long path to perfection is horizontal.

Our clothing, our food, our household furnishings - all could be much simpler than they now are and at the same time be better looking

So much of the art of film is to do less. To aspire to do less.

The greatest ideas are the simplest.

A well-cut dress is my personal style. I definitely like it classic; less is more. The thing I despise most is vulgarity.

It's almost scary how stylish things can look if you take the color out - how much more you see the essence of things and how much more something can appear elegant.

The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none.

There's an applied style of being minimal and simple, and then there's real simplicity. This looks simple, because it really is.

Living simply makes loving simple.

One comes to bless the absolute bareness, feeling that here is a pure beauty of form, a kind of ultimate harmony.

The beginner should approach style warily, realizing that it is himself he is approaching, no other; and he should begin by turning resolutely away from all devices that are popularly believed to indicate style - all mannerisms, tricks, adornments. The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.

Albert Durer, the famous painter, used to say he had no pleasure in pictures that were painted with many colors, but in those which were painted with a choice simplicity. So it is with me as to sermons.

Simplicity is a jewel rarely found.

Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.

Live below your means but within your needs.