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Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.