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Leonardo da Vinci

1452–1519Renaissance art & scienceMedieval (600 – 1500)Person

Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian painter, engineer and scientist of the Renaissance, whose notebooks record his studies of nature, anatomy and machines. The saying 'Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication' is often credited to him, but no source for it in his writings has been found.

References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/04/02/simple/

Quotes (1)

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
— Unknown (often misattributed to Leonardo da Vinci), Popular attribution to Leonardo; Quote Investigator finds no evidence he said it (earliest Leonardo attribution c. 2000). Closest early match: Clare Boothe Luce, Stuffed Shirts (1931): "the height of sophistication is simplicity."
MisattributedsourceMaxim: Keep it simple.