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• Strive for simplicity! Don't have the face a checkerboard of tints! Use such colors as nature uses, but not try to keep them distinct! Your work may be called monotonous, but one tone is better than many which do not harmonize.

  William Morris Hunt

  Color, Trying, Use

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• Minute and elaborately finished pictures never strongly impress the mind, and are but mere curiosities to gratify persons insensible to higher excellencies.

  Samuel Prout

  Curiosity, Mind, Minutes

  Samuel Prout, Rudolph Ackermann (1838). “Hints on Light and Shadow, Composition, Etc: As Applicable to Landscape Painting”, p.7

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• Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.

  Charles Webster Hawthorne

  Speech, Want, Dinner

  Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). “Charles Webster Hawthorne”, University of Washington Press

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• To see things simply is the hardest thing in the world.

  Charles Webster Hawthorne

  World, Hardest, Hardest Thing

  Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). “Charles Webster Hawthorne”, University of Washington Press

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• My tendency towards bareness and simplification has been practiced in three fields: modeling, colors, and the figuration of the personages.

  Joan Miro

  Color, Three, Fields

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• The painter who is so enamoured by the beauties of the parts of a landscape, that he strives to represent all, cannot succeed. His picture will be an arrangement of a series of portraits of things without unity... There must be variety and contrast, but in measured doses.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Unity, Portraits, Landscape

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• The most interesting studio work, and perhaps the most practicable, is painting from pencil sketches and notes... It ensures the elimination of all facts but those essential to the effect.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Interesting, Essentials, Facts

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• The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.

  Matthew Arnold

  Poetry, Noble, Serious Subjects

  On Translating Homer: Last Words (1862)

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• Visual artists choreograph dances for the eyes, guiding visual journeys in specific ways. But when presented with little or nothing, the journeys of the eyes become erratic and finally still their restless searching. The eye and mind and heart grow quiet, come to rest, and begin to understand their own functioning more deeply.

  John Paul Caponigro

  Heart, Eye, Journey

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• Simpler manners, purer lives; more self-denial; more earnest sympathy with the classes that lie below us, nothing short of that can lay the foundations of the Christianity which is to be hereafter, deep and broad.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Lying, Self, Class

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.350

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• When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity.

  Bruce Lee

  Conditioning

  Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated

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• You're trying to make your painting too complicated. Paintings get complicated all by themselves.

  Toni Onley

  Trying, Painting, Complicated

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• As to our friend , I pray God to bestow upon him a simplicity that shall give him peace . Happy are they indeed who can bear their sufferings in the enjoyment of this simple peace and perfect acquiesence in the will of God.

  Francois Fenelon

  Simple, Giving, Perfect

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• God would behold in you a simplicity which will contain so much the more of His wisdom as it contains less of your own.

  Francois Fenelon

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.78, Lulu.com

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• You cannot do silhouettes in fantasy. Ah, no, you must be faithful. It is, the art, a, what you call, paradox. It is always that you must be simple, and then, if you are simple, you will stimulate the imagination of the observer.

  Ugo Mochi

  Art, Simple, Imagination

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• The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.

  Honore de Balzac

  Art, Perfection, Progress

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• We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Reality, Honest

  "Question time". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2009.

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• Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Life Changing, Hard Work

  "Steve Jobs quotes: the man in his own words", www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2011.

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• Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Distinction, Mark, Truest

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.

  Frank A. Clark

  Life, Food, Would Be

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• Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Inspirational Life, Taste, Simplifying Life

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

  Johannes Kepler

  Nature, Science, Use

  "Viking Book of Aphorisms: A Personal Selection" by W. H. Auden and Louis Kronenberger, (p. 98), 1920.

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• To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Lying, Expression

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• You can't have everything. Where would you put it?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Laughter, Humorous

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• Enjoy the simple, the natural and the plain. Along with that comes the ability to do things spontaneously and have them work.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Simple, Tao Of Pooh, Natural

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