Art Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

There is but one art, to omit.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The art of drawing is the art of omission.

— Max Liebermann

Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.

— Carl Andre

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

— Pablo Picasso

Much of our lives involves the word “no.” In school we are mostly told, “Don't do it this way. Do it that way.” But…

— Marvin Bell

Art is elimination of the unnecessary.

— Waldo Salt

There is one art, no more, no less; to do all things with artlessness.

— Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Without mathematics there is no art.

— Luca Pacioli

Art is about eliminating almost everything in order to focus on the thing that you need to talk about.

— Jonathan Lethem

Without art we live under the illusion that there is only time, and not eternity.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and life of…

— Albert Camus

To know how to produce a work of art is to know how to discard the extraneous.

— Laura Esquivel