It's beautiful. It's simple. It's powerful. It's Perlish.

Hear, here! Bravo! D'accord!

• Hans Hofmann:

  The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

• E. F. Schumacker:

  Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction.

• Charles Mingus:

  Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

• Henry David Thoreau ("Where I Lived and What I Lived For" Walden):

  Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify, simplify! ... Simplicity of life and elevation of purpose.

• William of Ockham (also known as Ockham's Razor)

  Plurality should not be assumed without necessity.

• Mahlon Hoagland (Toward the Habit of Truth)

  Simplicity is indeed often the sign of truth and a criterion of beauty.