Antony Garrett Lisi Quotes

The universe, when you leave it alone, is going to be beautiful.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty.

Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.

You can always recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity.

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.

Simplicity is a jewel rarely found.

Beautiful things spoil nothing.

Acknowledge the elegance of simplicity.

Flowers always have it - poise, completion, fulfillment, perfection . . .

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

Artistry is to a large degree simplicity.

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.

All the great things are simple.

Elegance is not catching somebody's eyes, it's staying in somebody's memory

One can do such lovely things with so little. Subjects that are too beautiful end by appearing theatrical.

A simple garb is the proper costume of the vulgar; it is cut for them, and exactly suits their measure, but it is an ornament for those who have filled up their lives with great deeds. I liken them to beauty in dishabille, but more bewitching on that account.

Elegance does not catch the eye. It stays in memory.

There is only one proper way to wear a beautiful dress: to forget you are wearing it.

In Nature, all is useful, all is beautiful

The nude alone is well dressed

Butterflies...flowers that fly and all but sing.

In complexity, it is only simplicity that can be interesting.

I think elegance is always going to be there.

True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.