Weyes Blood Quotes

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

Simplicity!

When we appreciate how much we have, we feel the urge to pare down, get back to basics, and learn what is essential for our happiness. We long to realize what's really important.

I'm trying to take pictures of less and less.

Don't worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!

What a lot of things there are a man can do without.

Simplicity of life is an essential for greatness of life.

When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form... one inevitably ends up with an egg.

A simple life is not seeing how little we can get by with-that's poverty-but how efficiently we can put first things first. . . . When you're clear about your purpose and your priorities, you can painlessly discard whatever does not support these, whether it's clutter in your cabinets or commitments on your calendar. (148)

It's important to keep life simple, and if I'm traveling, I only can do a couple of things, and those are the things that I'm meant to be doing.

I try to play the bare essence, to let everything be just what it's supposed to be in that particular spot...You have many things to pick from when you're playing, so you try to train yourself to pick out the best things that you know.

When you play Mozart, it's so clean, it's so simple. It's the body naked.

I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.

It isn't necessary for a work to have a lot of things to look at, to compare, to analyze one by one, to contemplate. The thing as a whole, its quality whole, is what is interesting. The main things are alone and are more intense, clear and powerful.

The trick isn't adding stuff, it's taking away.

The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable.

In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting.

Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.

"Simple" is a tricky word, it can mean a lot of things. To us, it just means clear. That doesn't always mean total reduction, or minimalism - sometimes, to make things clearer, you have to add a step.

My goal is to omit everything superfluous so that the essential is shown to best possible advantage.

The trio is the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit.