John Maeda Quotes

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!

Simplicity requires ruthlessness.

Simplicity is the final achievement.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Less is more.

Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.

What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer.

I've always thought that less was a lot more.

Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.

Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.

I continue to be drawn to clarity and simplicity. 'Less is more' remains my mantra.

Most people in business and within their personal lives move towards complexity. More To Dos. More projects. More products. More meetings. More possessions. More goals. The best - I suggest to you - move in the opposite direction.

I always think less is more.

Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.

A simple life is not seeing how little we can get by with-that's poverty-but how efficiently we can put first things first. . . . When you're clear about your purpose and your priorities, you can painlessly discard whatever does not support these, whether it's clutter in your cabinets or commitments on your calendar. (148)

There is but one art, to omit! Oh, if I knew how to omit I would ask no other knowledge. A man who knows how to omit would make an Iliad of a daily paper.

I've noticed that sometimes when you keep things a little smaller, it's easier to focus on the creative aspects of what you're doing.

Simplicity is not the absence of clutter.

Good design means as little design as possible.

People who don’t know how to summarize have no dignity. Neither do people who needlessly drag on their messy lives. They who don’t know the beauty of simplification, of pruning away the unnecessary, die without ever comprehending the true meaning of life.

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

Simplicity is a matter of taste

One of my favorite colors is no color at all.

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

Simplicity is the outcome of technical subtlety. It is the goal, not the starting point.