“The principle of parsimony is valid esthetically in that the artist must not go beyond what is needed for his purpose.” PurposeArtistPrinciplesNeededParsimony Book:Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye Source: Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye
“I hadn't known anything else, other than being an artist, and I needed to be a person for a while, really get to know myself without that whole thing [of selling music] surrounding me.” KnowsPersonsWholeArtistKnownNeededSellingBeing An Artist Author:Tove Styrke
“Goethe said that the worst thing in art is technical facility accompanied by triteness. Many an artist, like God, has never needed to think twice about anything. His works are the mad scene from Giselle , on ice skates: he weeps, pulls out his hair holding his wrists like Lifar and tells you what Life is, all at a gliding forty miles an hour.” ThinkingArtSaidLife IsArtistHoursWorstHairNeededSceneArt IsMadMilesIceFortyWorst ThingsFacilityWristsSkatesThink TwiceGliding Author:Randall Jarrell
“I am a humble artist moulding my earthly clod, adding my labour to nature's, simply assisting God. Not that my labour is needed, yet somehow I understand, my Maker has deemed it that I too should have Unmoulded clay in my hand.” ShouldHandsArtistNeededShould HaveHumbleLabourMakersClayAssisting Author:Piet Pieterszoon Hein
“I suppose that every time there is difficulty. I remember about Space Mountain: It took us ten years before we found the technology that would allow such a ride. And during these ten years, I had a model that I kept, waiting for the technology we needed.” YearsRememberArtistFoundWaitingSpaceTechnologyNeededTenMountainModelsDifficulty Author:John Hench