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«The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.»
Author: Hans Hofmann
(Painter)
| About:
Ability
| Keywords:
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«Simplify, simplify.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
simplified, simplifies, simplify, simplifying
«Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.»
Author: Anais Nin
(Author)
| About:
Truth
| Keywords:
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«There is no interruption between my older paintings and my cutouts. Just that with an increasing sense of the absolute, and more abstraction, I have achieved a form that is simplified to its essence,»
Author: Henri Matisse
(Artist, Painter)
| About:
Painting
| Keywords:
abstraction, increasing, interruption, interruptions, paintings, simplified, simplifies, simplifying, The Absolute
«[To simplify] is very nearly the whole of the higher artistic process; finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without -- and yet preserve the spirit of the whole.»
Author: Willa Sibert Cather
(Author)
| Keywords:
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«PRECEDENT, n. In Law, a previous decision, rule or practice which, in the absence of a definite statute, has whatever force and authority a Judge may choose to give it, thereby greatly simplifying his task of doing as he pleases. As there are precedents for everything, he has only to ignore those that make against his interest and accentuate those in the line of his desire. Invention of the precedent elevates the trial-at-law from the low estate of a fortuitous ordeal to the noble attitude of a dirigible arbitrament.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favour in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Direction,
Dreams
| Keywords:
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«As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Simplicity
| Keywords:
Laws, poverty, simpler, simplified, simplifies, simplify, simplifying, solitude, the universe, universe, weakness
«I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| Keywords:
arranging, colors, departing, enlarging, model, ruthlessly, simplified, simplifies, simplifying, the matter, to enlarge, true color
«We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
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