Failure Quote by Paul Klee

Nature/Structure. There is no more to say. In my pictures I reduce to that. But 'reduce' is the wrong word, because these are not…

— Gerhard Richter

“Less and fewer. Less applies to a reduced quantity. Fewer applies to a reduced number:”

— David Ross

We reduce things to mere Nature in order that we may "conquer" them.

— C. S. Lewis

Allow not nature more than nature needs.

— William Shakespeare

“It is futile to do with more what can be done with fewer.”

— William of Ockham

“In art we do not make things any simpler by making simpler things. Reduction does not yield certainty, but something like its opposite, which…

— Kirk Varnedoe

Live with fewer things that have greater meaning.

— Dominique Browning

It is vain to do with more what can be done with fewer.

— William of Occam

“Eliminate one species, and another increases in number to take its place”

— Kim Sterelny

Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.

— Isaac Newton

I want to say less, and it's easier to say less.

— Jesse Ball

Nothing is more consonant with Nature than that she puts into operation in the smallest detail that which she intends as a whole.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe