Claude Debussy Quotes

Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.

Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

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.

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony.

Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

The best artists know what to leave out.

I think complexity is beautiful.

Beauty rests on necessities.

The art of art... is simplicity.

The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.

The highest Beauty should be plain set.

I believe in art that conceals art.

Albert Durer, the famous painter, used to say he had no pleasure in pictures that were painted with many colors, but in those which were painted with a choice simplicity. So it is with me as to sermons.

Acknowledge the elegance of simplicity.

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.

...it is simplicity that is difficult to make.

Less is more, in prose as in architecture.