Phil Crosby Quotes

Less is more.

When in doubt, throw it out.

When in doubt, one can rarely go wrong by going public.

The best way to find out what we really need is to get rid of what we don't. Quests to faraway places or shopping sprees are no longer necessary. All you have to do is eliminate what you don't need by confronting each of your possessions properly.

When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. It's hard because you have to decide what to throw out.

When in doubt, don't.

I've always thought that less was a lot more.

Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.

Yeah, the first thing that comes to mind is not to try too hard.

When in doubt, punt!

When in doubt, take more time.

I usually go with the 'less is more' approach.

I cut up loads. I always want everything shorter, shorter, shorter.

So much of artistic creation is just exclusion. It's not creating things; it's just excluding things that really aren't going to be helpful.

I always think less is more.

I'm gradually getting rid of all the things I don't need.

When in doubt...shoe it out.

Do less than you ever thought it was possible to do.

When in doubt, stand still.

The great art of writing is knowing when to stop.

There is but one art, to omit.

One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

I feel there’s no need to overstate.

To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity.

Eliminate the superfluous.