Bill Griffith Quotes

I like sparseness. There's something about that minimalist feel that can make something have an immediate impact and make it unique. I'll probably always work with that formula; I just don't know how.

My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style.

I think 'Tron' is a good example of minimalism.

The reason they look the way they do is that the first drawing I did of them was really small so I didn't draw fingers, nose, ears, etc and this drawing had a certain appeal that I really liked.

The lines of Pearl Art Glass are clean, certainly not cluttered.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

My tendency towards bareness and simplification has been practiced in three fields: modeling, colors, and the figuration of the personages.

Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret.

The beauty of simplicity is the complexity it attracts.

It is the bareness of drawing that I like. The act of drawing is what locates, suggests, discovers. At times it seems enough to draw, without the distractions of color and mass. Yet it is an old ambition to make drawing and painting one.

If you miss the bus, miss the train, you’d be left behind. So everyone says, let’s get on the train, let’s get on the bus and go faster and get rich... I just didn’t like that kind of lifestyle. I love to read books, to listen to music.

How small a thought it takes to fill a life.

With maturity comes the wish to economize - to be more simple. Maturity is the period when one finds the just measure.

Simplicity, it seems, has always been wasted on those who simply cannot appreciate it

If we could put material things into their proper place, and use them without being attached to them, how much freer we would be. Then we wouldn't burden ourselves with things we don't need. If we could only realize that we are all cells in the same body of humanity - then we would think of having enough for all, not too much for some and too little for others.

I prefer to live in a rented house. No ties. Nothing around my neck. Just the minimum kind of bare comforts of home.

Sean, as always, gets by on one word while everyone else needs five or six.

A wall is the safeguard of simplicity.

Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward. Rather, returning to a simpler way allows us to regain our dignity, puts us in touch with the land, and makes us value human contact again.

Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.

Some of us need to discover that we will not begin to live more fully until we have the courage to do and see and taste and experience much less than usual... And for a man who has let himself be drawn completely out of himself by his activity, nothing is more difficult than to sit still and rest, doing nothing at all. The very act of resting is the hardest and most courageous act he can perform.

Sometimes I wish I could just wear the same thing every day. Cartoons do it. It’d make things a lot easier

All you really need in life is some fresh water, a good hat, and a really good pair of shoes.

The real Zen of the old Chinese masters was wu-shih, or "no fuss."

My definition of success is not having things thrown at me!