The niftiest turn of phrase, the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy, isn't worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed.
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Art, it seems to me, should simplify.
It's a simple formula; do your best and somebody might like it.
Simplicity, carried to an extreme, becomes elegance.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.
It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.
Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
The simplest things give me ideas.
If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea.
It is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity: nothing is better than simplicity.
True eloquence consists of saying all that should be said, and that only.
Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.
Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought.
The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
Simple style is like white light. It is complex, but its complexity is not obvious.
When an idea is too weak to support a simple statement, it is a sign that it should be rejected.
When thought is too weak to be simply expressed, it's clear proof that it should be rejected.
The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.