Edouard Manet Quotes

Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

Extreme complication is contrary to art.

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

Cleanliness is the scourge of art.

Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.

The art of art... is simplicity.

There is but one art, to omit.

Art, it seems to me, should simplify.

We talk too much. We should talk less and draw more.

All art does but consist in the removal of surplusage.

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

When it comes to fashion or any high art, you have to have a combination of delicacy, along with taste.

It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.

The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.

It's not what you play but what you leave out that makes the difference.

Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.

But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony.

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

The best artists know what to leave out.

I am an Indian and a painter, that's all.

Land really is the best art.

Simplicity is the glory of expression.