True simplicity — the thing which is truly whole — leaves the nothing undisturbed, quiet, like a lake.

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• Something truly relaxed, truly made for human comfort, truly arising from an egoless and unencumbered wish to make things right, and nothing more.quote0.819
  Final lines describing the ultimate ordinariness and authenticity of living architecture.
• The simplest thing which can be created, in real terms, is that thing which goes furthest to resolve, complete, hence to elaborate and underpin the structure of the world, its wholeness, which exists at that place.claim0.813
  Definition of real simplicity tied to resolving the wholeness.
• Simplicity is a spiritually achieved state of art.claim0.813
  Claims the spiritual dimension of true simplicity.
• Simplicity and Inner Calmconcept0.778
  The property that living wholes have a geometrical simplicity and purity with a certain slowness, majesty, and quietness; everything unnecessary is removed—all centers not actively supporting other centers are stripped out
• In every case, the process is straightforward, simple, and above all free: it allows the reality of the situation, the human needs, human joys, to find expression.claim0.776
  A summary generalization from the examples about the nature of living processes.
• In portraiture, as in architecture, it is the wholeness which is the real thing that lies beneath the surface and determines everything.claim0.772
  Generalization from the Matisse example: artistic success depends on capturing wholeness.
• "There is something ineffable, a mystical core in things, that is deeply related to our own individual self, and that THIS — not something else — is the true core both of matter and of architecture."quote0.771
  Closing statement of the Mid-Book Appendix identifying the I as the foundation of both matter and architecture.
• The unity is not merely a unity in the surface, in the appearance of things — it is a unity of the most fundamental kind, which goes to the raw reality and which has, when it occurs, a highly unexpected, sometimes rambling, sometimes ferocious, sometimes friendly, even sometimes absurdly crude or comfortable character.claim0.771
  True unity is not about conventional beauty but about a raw, messy, everyday reality that resonates deeply.