What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.
The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest; to really see the things which are before your eyes.
I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute.
The sun is simple. A sword is simple. A storm is simple. Behind everything simple is a huge tail of complicated.
It looks easy, like surfing, but surfing is hard too.
Sometimes, the things we think are so simple but not so easy to grasp are the things that work the best.
I don't mind hidden depths but I insist that there be a surface.
I am always amazed how much a certain facility with a special and apparently narrow technique can accomplish.
The picture that looks as if it were done without an effort may have been a perfect battlefield in its making.
Everything seems simpler from a distance.
Things that look like shortcuts are actually detours (disguised as less work).
