Less is more

Less is more may refer to:

• "Less is more", a phrase from the Robert Browning poem "Andrea del Sarto", also called "The Faultless Painter", published in 1855
• Less is more (architecture), a phrase adopted in 1947 by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe as a precept for Minimalist design and architecture
• A phrase sometimes used to describe the Unix command-line utility less, which provides similar functionality to more

Arts and media

• Less Is More (album), an album by Marillion
• "Less is More Tour", a 2011 tour by Natasha Bedingfield
• Les Is More, album by Ryan Leslie
• "Less Is More", a song by Joss Stone from Mind, Body & Soul
• "Less Is More", a song by Relient K from The Anatomy of the Tongue in Cheek

See also

• Choosing Wisely ("less is more" in medicine)
• Minimalist music
• Minimalism
• Minimalism (computing)
• Simple living
• "More Is More" (song)
• More or Less (disambiguation)
• Less (disambiguation)
• More (disambiguation)