"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 '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
