Simplicity Quotes

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Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead… — Paul Klee
Certainly, nothing can be more simple than monotony. — Joshua Reynolds
Grandeur of effect is produced by two different ways which seem entirely opposed to each other. One is by reducing the colors to little more… — Joshua Reynolds
The spectator, as he walks the gallery, will stop, or pass along. To give a general air of grandeur at first view, all trifling, or… — Joshua Reynolds
A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable. — Paul Dickson
The evolution of knowledge is toward simplicity, not complexity. — L. Ron Hubbard
Strive for simplicity! Don't have the face a checkerboard of tints! Use such colors as nature uses, but not try to keep them distinct! Your… — William Morris Hunt
In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting. — Thomas Eakins
I really can't deny it, I am who I am. I'm pretty normal. I'm not that smooth type of girl. I run into things, I… — Katie Holmes
The life that intends to be wholly obedient, wholly submissive, wholly listening, is astonishing in its completeness. Its joys are ravishing, its peace profound, its… — Thomas Raymond Kelly
Minute and elaborately finished pictures never strongly impress the mind, and are but mere curiosities to gratify persons insensible to higher excellencies. — Samuel Prout
The motif must always be set down in a simple way, easily grasped and understood by the beholder. By the elimination of superfluous detail, the… — Alfred Sisley
Art should take what is complex and render it simply. It takes a lot of skill, human understanding, stamina, courage, energy, and heart to do… — Anna Deavere Smith
Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop. — Charles Webster Hawthorne
To see things simply is the hardest thing in the world. — Charles Webster Hawthorne
My tendency towards bareness and simplification has been practiced in three fields: modeling, colors, and the figuration of the personages. — Joan Miro
The painter who is so enamoured by the beauties of the parts of a landscape, that he strives to represent all, cannot succeed. His picture… — Walter J. Phillips
The most interesting studio work, and perhaps the most practicable, is painting from pencil sketches and notes... It ensures the elimination of all facts but… — Walter J. Phillips
In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily… — Simon Greenleaf
Where there are love and generosity, there is joy. Where there are sincerity and sacrifice, there is friendship. Where there are harmony and simplicity, there… — Lawrence Reed

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