Quotes About Simplicity

There is much to learn from architecture before it became an expert's art.

There's nothing more difficult than a line.

All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.

Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it.

Sometimes, I think the only art left for us is slowly peeling the label off a beer bottle while somebody tells you about a dream they had.

Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

Never put more than two waves in a picture; it's fussy.

The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal.

Comics as art. I do comics as comics, and my opportunity to tell stories. Simple. Basic. Let the characters have the excitement, not the package. That's where I come from.

I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.

Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.

More matter with less art.

Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

In art, one does not aim for simplicity; one achieves it unintentionally as one gets closer to the real meaning of things.

The moving accident is not my trade; To freeze the blood I have no ready arts: 'Tis my delight, alone in summer shade, To pipe a simple song for thinking hearts.

I do not see any essential difference between abstract and primitive art. Both are simple and sincere. Naturally, we should not generalize in these matters: It is the individual artist that counts.

All art does but consist in the removal of surplusage.

To thee, fair Freedom! I retire From flattery, cards, and dice, and din: Nor art thou found in mansions higher Than the low cot, or humble inn.

While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.

So much of the art of film is to do less. To aspire to do less.

The art which is grand and yet simple is that which presupposes the greatest elevation both in artist and in public.

The art of living in a small town is one of the most difficult to acquire.

I want to be the person whose art is accessible, who someone could look at and say "That's doesn't look so hard, I could do that."