"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

"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better"
- Albert Einstein

​“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

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“What business have I in the woods, if I am thinking of something out of the woods?”
- Henry David Thoreau

​“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

"Nature uses as little as possible of anything."
- Johannes Kepler

“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

"He who works with his hands is a laborer.
He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.
He who who works with his hands and head and his heart is an Artist."
- Francis of Assisi

“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

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."
- Lao Tzu

"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 
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'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.”
-Scott 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

"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness."
- John Muir

​“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