Quotes About Simplicity

Bryl-cream, a little dab will do you.

Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.

One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find.

Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.

Backpacking is the art of knowing what not to take.

Natural movement is the shortest way to an effective result. Like the way the water runs, it always finds the right way.

The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.

The art of drawing is the art of omission.

The usefulness of the cup is its emptiness.

But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.

Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, the beautiful in art.

An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

I'm for turning off the tube and turning down the light, cause I'm for nothing else but me and you tonight.

The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.

One learns first of all in beach living the art of shedding; how little one can get along with, not how much.

The art of art... is simplicity.

I don't like hype cluttering art.

All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means were only line and color.

Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.

Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings?

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

The real art is knowing what to leave out, not what to put in.

The most important lesson I received from Conceptual art consisted in the recording of simple and obvious things, and viewing them under a whole new light.