Winslow Homer Quotes

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

I am an Indian and a painter, that's all.

Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings?

Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, the beautiful in art.

Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole - so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page.

Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

The finest works of art are those in which there is the least matter. The closer expression comes to thought, the more the word clings to the idea and disappears, the more beautiful the work of 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.

Art, it seems to me, should simplify.

That should be the goal for all art, to be as simple as a flashcard.

All art does but consist in the removal of surplusage.

Forget the camera, forget the lens, forget all of that. With any four-dollar camera, you can capture the best picture.

In the end there is only Matisse.

A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.

The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.

The last thing is simplicity. After having gone through all the difficulties, having played an endless number of notes, it is simplicity that matters, with all its charm. It is the final seal on Art. Anyone who strives for this to begin with will be disappointed. You cannot begin at the end.

Less is more, in prose as in architecture.

One of the most striking aspects of abstract art's appearance is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.

To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.

I started to notice that simpleness is divine. I think we all start trying to use very complex harmonies and rhythms and all that because of a certain kind of ambition. But I was always trying to create something simple.

Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15.

Our task is not to find the maximum amount of content in a work of art, mush less to squeeze more content out of the work than is already there. Our task is to cut back on content so we can see the thing at all. The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us.

All I really need is my bed and my art around me.

I am leaving in order to have peace and quiet. To be rid of the influence of civilization. I only want to do simple, very simple art and to be able to do that, I have to immerse myself in virgin nature, see no one but savages, live their life, with no other thought in my mind but to render, the way a child would, the concepts formed in my brain and to do this with the aid of nothing but the primitive means of art, the only means that are good and true.