# Who said "Less Is More"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 12, 2001, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-said-less-is-more/72271 "2001-07-12T21:17:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![thimblegirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@thimblegirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thimblegirl)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2001, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-said-less-is-more/72271/1 "2001-07-12T21:17:26Z")
Who said “Less is more”? ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2001, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-said-less-is-more/72271/2 "2001-07-12T21:31:49Z")
Mies van der Rohe is the common answer, and he certainly deserves full credit for making it a common phrase. I seem to remember though running across it in a poem by Robert Browning (or maybe Robert Burns) once. I’ll see if I can scare up a citation. ---
**Author:** ![Kamandi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5daacb/32.png) [@Kamandi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamandi)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2001, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-said-less-is-more/72271/3 "2001-07-12T21:32:58Z")
It wasn’t Yogi Berra? ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2001, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-said-less-is-more/72271/4 "2001-07-12T21:33:11Z")
Well, it’s not the _Harvard Review_ or anything, but here’s [one site](http://www.abstractconcreteworks.com/essays/lessismore/ls_s_mor.html) that agrees with me. 🙂