Elias Canetti Quotes

Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

For me, music is in the choice of what not to play as much as in what you've chosen to play.

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

Never say more than is necessary.

I like to have space between the notes. I like to use silence.

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

If directors, actors and writers have the ability to drop their alpha-male egos, you will always get better work. In terms of my own demands, I actually want fewer lines. If I can lose a line and do it with my face, I'd rather do that.

I say what I need to, not a whole lot more.

To say more, is to say less.

I've always thought that less was a lot more.

I'm an enemy of exposition. I feel there's no need to overstate.

The best artists know what to leave out.

The essence of style is a simple way of saying something complex.

I usually go with the 'less is more' approach.

Simple goes a long way.

I always think less is more.

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.

Brevity - the sister of talent.

Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer.

It is by great economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.

Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what’s not supposed to be there.

I understand what something short should be like. I understand beauty in that form. If I start extending, somehow I kind of lose my bearings.

I am a minimalist. I like saying the most with the least.

There are occasions when the simplest and fewest words surpass in effect all the wealth of rhetorical amplification.