What is "less is more"

prov. That which is less complicated is often better understood and more appreciated than what is more complicated; simplicity is preferable to complexity; brevity in communication is more effective than verbosity.

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), phrase adopted by 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

Less Is More may also refer to:

• 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

Less Is More is an acoustic music studio album by Marillion, released on the band's own label on 2 October 2009. A retail version is distributed by Edel Music. It contains re-arranged songs from the period that Steve Hogarth has been their singer (since 1989) plus the previously unreleased track, "It's Not Your Fault".