I love a natural look in pictures.

I don’t really have any gimmicks. I don’t actually do anything that’s strange. I don’t even wear weird things.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

I don’t let my religious world get too complicated.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier and simpler.

I’m always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy with the images they got.

I don’t argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus‘ message was simple. Jesus didn’t go around condemning people.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

Every picture has its own demands, and every picture stimulates something within you to tell it a certain way. I don’t know what that is; I don’t think too much about that.

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity – and I don’t mean simple – it’ll be good, and the public will know it.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.

I’m definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I’m really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass.

I just really want to get music out and tour and go places I’ve never been, and just do more videos. I love photography and videography, and so I really want to direct videos when I can.

Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it – the grain, how it feels, the texture.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Simple goes a long way.

I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.

I want to reform the tax code so that it’s simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 – the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.

Behold the child, by Nature’s kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn’t that complicated. I wouldn’t want to put it on my business card.

Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.

Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‚infinitely‘ when you mean ‚very‘; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

I love to take, process and share photos – it fills me up.

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don’t have a lot of furniture in our house, so it’s really simple. And we’re trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don’t want to get isolated to do that.

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

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

I’m so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

The wind can be quite extreme in England. We are not familiar with that in Germany, and you have to keep things simple.

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

Some sarcasm is best told simply.

When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I’m not going to do anything that will make you uncomfortable. I want you to know that you won’t be disappointed in me.

I say to the paparazzi, ‚Fellas, take your shot and go.‘ It’s just they usually find me on a beach.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

I always think the everyday is more relevant than anything too grand because we all have to deal with it.

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

I’m not a photographer, so I didn’t get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That’s the world that I’m moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.

I am not one who – who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

But I think we’re also just talking about the literacy of the audience. The visual literacy of the audience. They’ve seen so many images now, especially here in the States. There’s so much to look at, to watch. So the visual storytelling literacy is harder to impress.

I was always interested – I mean, it’s kind of part of your job – I was always interested in the camera.

Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.

Everybody has their thing they like or don’t like to see. It’s all in your head. That’s why people take their own pictures, because it’s difficult for someone else to capture what you seek.

I try to speak plainly so that my constituents who don’t follow the nuances of government like I do, because they’re too busy earning a real living, can understand the issues before me. None of this stuff is brain surgery.

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

You just have to have a simple faith.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.