Creative Simplicity Quotes

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

I've come to realize ways of making music without being excessive.

Almost everything The Beatles did was great, and it's hard to improve on. They were our Bach. The way to get around it may be to keep it as simple as possible.

Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one idea at a time.

Writers write. That's all it is. It is as simple, and as complex, as that.

I never wanted to be anything special. I just wanted to make films.

I feel that all good art is powerful and simple.

Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished.

People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.

I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.

Everything great in science and art is simple. What can be less complicated than the greatest discoveries of humanity - gravitation, the compass, the printing press, the steam engine, the electric telegraph?

Music is an attitude. It's a sensation to the average person, to the human being. And keep it simple, stupid. That's always been my theory.

I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.

I stopped worrying about competition in contemporary art. It feels a little bit more pure. That's where I am, one step back.

Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.

I do not over-intellectualise the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

I look at bands like the Beach Boys, Hall & Oates and Blur, and those are the bands I want to be in company with because their songwriting is intelligent, and yet you don't need to be a musical genius to pick it up.

When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.

I don't like directing a lot of people. So trying to keep things really simple and elegant is my preferred way of working.

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.

You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I don't think it's art. I just think it's music. It is what it is.

Photographers feel guilty that all they do for a living is press a button.

I still feel like if I can get a song to work with, say, a basic beat, a rhythm, some chord changes, and a melody, a vocal melody - if it works with that, then I feel it's written and there's something there. So I intentionally don't get involved with arranging stuff or fussing over the sounds and the edits and the beats too much, at least not in the beginning, because I feel like then you can fool yourself that you've got something there, when you might not.

I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.

The Japanese are virtuosos. They make just the little accent that makes all the difference. So much there is so beautiful - just a shop window display is a work of art. Just the way they make all kinds of things out of bamboo that are so ingenious. Just the way this little bamboo drain or latch is so beautiful. The masonry around the streams to hold the bank are beautiful - and not all one kind and not just cement.