Daniel Humm Quotes

Extreme complication is contrary to art.

Every dish doesn't have to be showy, and every dish doesn't have to slap you in the face with technique.

Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.

Strike the right balance between your outfit and makeup. Make a statement with one, not both.

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.

Sometimes I think albums are so ambitious, they don't stand as bodies of work because you try to achieve so much, and sometimes we need to do less. Say less.

A good painting is a lot like a good joke: you need to know when to stop, too many 'punchlines and you will have gone too far.

The very common error of young or unconfident cooks is to keep putting more of their own personal ideology into a plate until there's so much noise that you really can't even hear a tune. You can say more in an empty space than you can in a crowded one.

Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.

The highest Beauty should be plain set.

One of the traditions of film acting is a sort of mumbled realism. Be minimal, and do less. 'Even less than that.'

I believe in art that conceals art.

So much of the art of film is to do less. To aspire to do less.

What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.

We need better things, not more. We should not pollute the world with meaningless, unused things when we can make and support things of rare and precious beauty.

The older I get, the more I think lightness of touch is an incredibly difficult thing to do.

Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

The beauty of modesty ... a virtue the world doesn't have much truck with: one ordinary flower in a vase, as opposed to a bouquet.

There is a close relationship between a house full of possessions and a heart full of desires, between a cluttered closet and a crowded schedule, between having no place to put possessions and having no priorities for our life. These are precious clues. They remind us to slow down, to live in the present, to reduce the desires that drain our vitality, to clarify priorities so we can give our time and attention to what matters most. Tragically, in the press of modern life, we have managed to get backwards one of life's most vital truths: people are to be loved; things are to be used.

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.

Simplicity is a jewel rarely found.

Why is it so difficult to assemble those things that really matter in life and to dwell among them only? I am referring to certain landscapes, persons, beasts, books, rooms, meteorological conditions, fruits.

Acknowledge the elegance of simplicity.

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.