Quotes About Simplicity

The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can.

I've taken away everything I could think of, and yet what remains is enough. These days many more people come to my work, and once they see my work they will always recognize it.

I'm a quiet person, I'm not a flashy art world person. I'm in the studio in the middle of nowhere. There's sheep and fields. The work has to be authentic in that way.

Through a process of trial and error and experimentation, I discovered the simplest method - using only black - produced work with the strongest visual impact installed.

Oh that simplicity and innocence its own unvalued work so seldom knows!

Agnes Martin is a big influence in my work actually, when I first saw her, these fine grids.

And after a while, you just pare things down more and more and more, until you get to certain basic things which just - basic ideas which just seem to work for you over and over again.

Doing a straight-forward, clear-cut task that has a beginning and an end balances out the complexity-without-end that often vexes the rest of my life. Sacred simplicity.

I don't always want a big meal after work - just some crisps and wine!

My mum's from Yorkshire and my parents aren't snotty or posh - they're very hard workers, both of them.

The instinct to produce great work doesn't require a fancy notebook.

It's only when all the dust is completely gone from the mirror, and there is only mirror, no dust, that we're really enlightened. So that's a lot of work.

If it really made sense to "let the club do the work," you'd just say, "Driver, wedge to the green, one-putt," and walk to the next tee.

I think every collection is always a move forward. It's the same work - the process is always the same. The interesting thing is to try to achieve a certain nothingness.

I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.

Why shouldn't a PC work like a refrigerator or a toaster?

But make not more business necessary than is so; and rather lessen than augment work for thyself.

A simple [writing] style is the result of very hard work.

When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.

Beware all enterprises that require new clothes.

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

To live an effective life, you have to turn your back on the things of the world

Stop trying to make a living and begin to live

Don't equate effective living to being busy