Pastoral Resources

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.

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.

The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points.

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.

Simplicity is the key.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.

There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.

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.

No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee.

For simplicity one can think of the + class as having one extra base at some point or other in the genetic message and the - class as having one too few.

I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity.

A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.