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• When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll.

  Eddie Van Halen

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• Simplicity is the key to brilliance.

  Bruce Lee

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• Brevity is the soul of wit.

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• I’m a big fan of simplicity, especially with songs and I try not to make them complicated. I just make them simple and let people absorb that message themselves. That’s my theory.

  Graham Russell

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• I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.

  Yves Saint Laurent

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• I always go for simplicity.

  David Bailey

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• I’ve always liked simplicity.

  Marissa Mayer

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• I find that kid actors are great reminders of the simplicity of acting. As you get older, you can sometimes complicate things a little more. You can become too aware of, ‘Okay, this is the scene emotionally. This is where we need to be. We’ve got the climax coming up.’ You can start to analyze it too much.

  Hugh Jackman

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• Simplicity is the ultimate form sophistication.

  Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci

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• What’s really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer.

  William Albert Allard

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• Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation.

  Richard Holloway

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• Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

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• Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one’s self by entering into the real sense of things.

  Constantin Brancusi

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• These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages.

  Edward Sapir

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• One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.

  Edward Sapir

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• French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well.

  Edward Sapir

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• A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him.

  Edward Sapir

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• And yes, there’s a simplicity to writing books because you’re not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee.

  Bernard Cornwell

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• And so from that, I’ve always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.

  Will Wright

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• Simplicity is the key.

  Ritchie Blackmore

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