Paulo Coelho Quotes

Extreme complication is contrary to art.

Elegance is elimination.

The best artists know what to leave out.

Acknowledge the elegance of simplicity.

What is elegance? Soap and water!

Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.

But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony.

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

Elegance is refusal.

Sometimes I think albums are so ambitious, they don't stand as bodies of work because you try to achieve so much, and sometimes we need to do less. Say less.

Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.

The highest Beauty should be plain set.

The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

The trick isn't adding stuff, it's taking away.

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.

Artistry is to a large degree simplicity.

To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity.

Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.

Simplicity is an exact mediumbetween too little and too much.

There is a majesty in simplicity.

A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

I like to think that I can introduce people to the idea of simplicity and elegance.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.