American writers Quote by William H. Gass

You’re getting rid of the things that people used to think were essential to art. But that reduction is only incidental. I object to…

— Donald Judd

Art is elimination of the unnecessary.

— Waldo Salt

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Jonathan Lethem

“Art is all the implicit knowledge, mechanisms and processes that are not yet fit with the method and consensus of science.”

— Nader Ibrahim

“Science seeks to understand complex processes by reducing them to their essential actions and studying the interplay of those actions--and this reductionist approach extends…

— Eric Kandel

Art is concerned with the HOW and not the WHAT.

— Josef Albers

“The representative element in a work of art may or may not be harmful; always it is irrelevant. For, to appreciate a work of…

— Clive Bell

“Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.”

— Anonymous

Any art which can be subjected to an analytical process is, by this very fact, removed from the possibility of being art.

— Douglas Portway

The purpose of art is to re-present nature, not represent it.

— Josef Albers

“Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree the artist is in…

— Oscar Wilde