"The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves. "
- Willem de Kooning
"The greatest carver does the least cutting."
-Tao Te Ching
"You should always respect what you are and your culture because if your art is going to mean anything, that is where it comes from."
-Romare Bearden
"They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality."
- Frida Kahlo
"Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it."
- Salvador Dali
"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art."
- Leonardo Da Vinci
“An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them."
- Andy Warhol
“I’m not confused, I’m just well mixed.”
- Robert Frost
“There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it.'”
- Henry Moore
“Be sure to expose yourself to criticism: A fine polish requires an abrasive.”
- Marilyn vos Savant
“All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.”
- Marc Chagall
"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."
-Michelangelo Buonarroti
"The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist."
-Novalis
“How difficult it is to be simple.”
-Vincent Van Gogh
“If the artist’s will is not strong he will see all kinds of unessential things.”
-Robert Henri
“Simplicity of shape does not necessarily equate with simplicity of experience.”
-Robert Morris
"Painting is easy for those that do not know how, but very difficult for those that do."
- Edgar Degas
“There is nothing quite so complicated as simplicity.”
-Charles Poore
“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.”
-Hans Hofmann
"Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality."
- Beatrix Potter
“Simplicity is the nature of great souls.”
-Papa Ramadas
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist when you grow up.”
-Pablo Picasso
“If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.”
-Juan Ramon Jimenez
“Water which is too pure has no fish.”
-Ts’ai Ken T’an
'There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.”
-Paul Gauguin
“The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.”
-Havelock Ellis
“Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten.”
-Gucci family motto
“Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.”
-Plato
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
-Leonardo da Vinci
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
-Scot Adams
“Simplicity is nature’s first step, and the last of art.”
-Philip James Bailey
“Art is man’s nature; nature is God’s Art.”
-Philip James Bailey
“Less is more.”
-Robert Browning
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.”
-Albert Einstein
“Simplicity, carried to an extreme, becomes elegance.”
-Jon Franklin
"Simplicity is hard."
-Jay McDougall
“Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.”
-John Lennon
“When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.”
-Marc Chagall
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