Is it faith to understand nothing and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

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.

I appreciate simplicity true beauty that lasts over time and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun.

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter simplicity to the former.

Don't get me wrong I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me beauty lies in simplicity.

As I grew older I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate implicit morality not didactic. A morality which changes the blood rather than the mind.

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.

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.