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“If only simplicity were not the most difficult of all things. It consists of watching objectively the development of any fragment of fantasy.”

Ifs Difficult Fantasy Development All Things Simplicity Fragments

Author:Carl Jung

“Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts; but to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task. Thus it is easy to affect a pompous style, to use a word twice as big as the thing you want to express; it is not so easy to pitch upon the very word that exactly fits it.”

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“It's easy to make something with a million style-lines. Simplicity is the most difficult thing to achieve, and that's how I approach design - very minimal, pare it down, perfect.”

Easy Difficult Lines Perfect Millions Achieve Style Design Approach Simplicity Difficult Things

Author:Keith Michael

“Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.”

World Left Difficult This World Achievement Profound Simplicity Difficult Things

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“Both Socrates and Jesus were outstanding teachers; both of them urged and practiced great simplicity of life; both were regarded as traitors to the religion of their community; neither of them wrote anything; both of them were executed; and both have become the subject of traditions that are difficult or impossible to harmonize.”

Jesus Difficult Christ Community Teacher Impossible Subjects Jesus Christ Tradition Simplicity Outstanding Traitor

Book:Jesus through the centuries: Mary through the centuries

Source: Jesus through the centuries: Mary through the centuries

“Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie. Ordinary professionalism and twenty years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places. That still needs what it always needs - a condition of complete simplicity, costing not less than everything.”

Needs Years Stills Lying Difficult Creative Conditions Ordinary Tests Twenties Simplicity Accomplish Access Professionalism Creative Work

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated.”

Difficult Simple Simplicity Complicated

Book:Modern Painters

Source: Modern Painters