Eliot Sumner Quotes

I've always gone for the more understated look.

Minimal art went nowhere.

I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.

I don't like a lot of feathers and frills. I like a clean aesthetic, a Calvin Klein aesthetic.

I do love sparse cartooning.

People say I am a classic designer. I don't try to be classic, but I do try to be simple and elegant.

For Blanc & Eclare, we go by the motto 'modern classic,' and that kind of comes from me because I don't like to overdo things and I try to be as natural as possible.

I love a classic, white silk shirt with dark trousers or jeans or a dark, knee-length skirt: timeless clothes that are not too fussy always work.

I love white, I love black. For me, sometimes, it's nice to play with colors, but when you're too busy to think and you've got so much in your mind, sometimes all you need is a bare uniform.

I have a passion for modern and contemporary art.

As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art.

Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it.

The art of drawing is the art of omission.

Simplicity is complexity resolved

There's an applied style of being minimal and simple, and then there's real simplicity. This looks simple, because it really is.

No color will ever be brighter for me than black and white.

One thing living in Japan did for me was to make me feel that what is left out of a work of art is as important as, if not more important than, what is put in.

I like things that have to do with what is real, elegant, well presented and without excessive style. In other words, just fine observation.

Early on, he'd learned to enjoy simple things, things that couldn't be bought, and he had a hard time understanding people who felt otherwise.

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.

The default movement on a software project should be in the direction of taking elements of the software away to make it simpler rather than adding elements to make it more complex.

I found a way of working which pleased me because I didn’t have to frighten people with heavy equipment. It was that little black box and me.

Some people would say you need what you need to work, but I need very little to work, because I learned how to make movies on tiny movies. It's all kind of easy for me.

Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I valued "Jane Eyre" over the anonymous stranger...Of course all of Shakespeare was worth more than a human life.

I never understood people who don't have bookshelves.