Bertolt Brecht Quotes

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Extreme complication is contrary to art.

Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.

Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of.

Simplicity is the most difficult of all concepts.

I believe in art that conceals art.

I'm an enemy of exposition. I feel there's no need to overstate.

The thing about simplicity is it's not easy to achieve. To many, simplicity can mean repetitiveness and maybe even a lack of intelligence, those kind of things, but simple yet unique is the key.

Make subtlety obvious.

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

The highest Beauty should be plain set.

It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.

The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

True refinement seeks simplicity.

Acknowledge the elegance of simplicity.

Simplicity not simplistic.

All the great things are simple.

True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.

Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.

Making something simple is very difficult.

Less is more, in prose as in architecture.

Simplicity is a matter of taste

Simplicity, to me, has always been the essence of good taste.

Simplicity, it seems, has always been wasted on those who simply cannot appreciate it