Nothing has raised more questioning among my critics thanthese wordsönoble, thegrand style† Ithink it will be found that the grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.

-Arnold, Matthew
  On Translating Homer; Last Words.

Success never depended on pandering to the public taste. It has always been founded on simplicity.

-Baron
Quoted in  A  J P  Taylor Beaverbrook (1972), ch.13.

A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

-Delacroix, (Ferdinand Victor) Euge'  ne
  The Journal of Euge'  ne Delacroix (translated by W Pach, 1948).

Her bygone simplicity was the art that conceals art.

-Hardy,Thomas
  The Mayor of Casterbridge, ch.15.

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangersthat werereal and immediate wastheprocess of a rational mind.Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All hehad to dowas ask; and as soon ashe did, he would no longer be crazyand would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22, and let out a respectful whistle. 'That's some catch, that Catch-22,' he observed. 'It's the best there is,' Doc Daneeka agreed.

-Heller,Joseph
Catch-22, ch.5.

Simplicity, without variety, is wholly insipid.

-Hogarth,William
  The Analysis of Beauty.

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.

-James, Henry
Remark to his niece. Quoted in Leon Edel The Letters of Henry James (1953^72), vol.4, introduction.

The aim of science is always to reduce complexity to simplicity.

-James,William
  The Principles of Psychology, ch.9.

Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast; Still to be powdered, still perfumed, Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound. Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free: Such sweet neglect more taketh me, Than all the adulteries of art; They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.

-Jonson, Ben
^10  Epicoene, act1, sc.1.

Cultivate simplicity,Coleridge.

-Lamb, Charles
  Letter to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 8 Nov. Collected in E  W Marrs Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, vol.1 (1975).

Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.

-Pound, Ezra Loomis
  Guide to Kulcher, pt.3, section 5, ch.19.