“Art should take what is complex and render it simply. It takes a lot of skill, human understanding, stamina, courage, energy, and heart to do that.” ShouldHumansHeartArtEnergyUnderstandingSkillsComplexesSimplicityStamina Book:Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind Source: Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind
“The greatest artists have never been men of taste. By never sophisticating their instincts they have never lost the awareness of the great simplicities, which they relish both from appetite and from the challenge these offer to skill in competition with popular art.” MenArtArtistLostChallengesAwarenessTasteOffersSkillsCompetitionInstinctSimplicityAppetiteRelish Author:Jacques Barzun
“Mastery... is to work toward simplicity; replace complex technology with knowledge, hard work, and skill.” HardTechnologyHard WorkSkillsComplexesSimplicityMastery Author:Yvon Chouinard
“It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.” LiteratureEasyDifficultSimpleSacrificeSkillsSimplicityComplicatedExecution Author:John Ruskin
“I just remember their kindness and goodness to me, and their peacefulness and their utter simplicity. They inspired real reverence, and I think, in a way, they were certainly saints. And they were saints in that most effective and telling way: sanctified by leading ordinary lives in a completely supernatural manner, sanctified by obscurity, by usual skills, by common tasks, by routine, but skills, tasks, routine which received a supernatural form from grace within.” ThinkingWayRealRememberFormCommonKindnessGraceSkillsGoodnessOrdinaryTasksInspiredSimplicitySaintRoutineUsualReverenceObscurityOrdinary LifePeacefulness Author:Thomas Merton
“The most complicated skill Is to be simple.” SimpleSkillsSimplicityComplicated Author:Dejan Stojanovic
“The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. They forget, perhaps, that his religion forbade the accumulation of wealth and the enjoyment of luxury... Furthermore, it was the rule of his life to share the fruits of his skill and success with his less fortunate brothers. Thus he kept his spirit free from the clog of pride, cupidity, or envy, and carried out, as he believed, the divine decree-a matter profoundly important to him.” Has BeensImportantMatterSuccessSpiritReligionWealthWhiteForgetPoorPovertyShareDivineBrotherPrideSkillsFruitSimplicityEnvyLuxuryFortunateEnjoymentNativeNative AmericanSavagesAccumulationDespisedConquerorFree SpiritDecreeAboriginalLess Fortunate Author:Charles Alexander Eastman