Graham Elliot Quotes

I admire Brian Eno so much in how he seems to push the idea of less being more - his touch is to crack open a window and let the light in.

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.

There was very little art in my childhood.

I am learning that a man can live profoundly without masses of things.

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.

Always bear this in mind, that very little indeed is necessary for living a happy life.

I shaved a lot off of a lot that I saw in that I like to be less is more and make everything count and not give anyone anything extra. I was what you see is what you got. It was organic. I came up with the persona. The persona is me, coupled together with a lot of my interests.

I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different.

I try not to bring in anything I don't love looking at. It's about restaint ... There is something about an unfinished quality that leaves within you that sense of possibility.

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.

No matter how little a man has he will find that he will always settle for less.

Simplicity is a jewel rarely found.

I am a better person when I have less on my plate.

I hope I'm able to achieve more on camera through stillness, through focus, through being quite careful to do less on every take, rather than more. So I'm reducing, rather than adding. Which hopefully is a good exercise. That's what I'd like to do.

I've been able to see the world many times over. The thing I've learned is less is more. I travel as light as possible. I try to carry on.

Realize How Little you Need in Order to be Satisfied and at Peace.

Good design means as little design as possible.

It has often been said there’s so much to be read, you never can cram all those words in your head. So the writer who breeds more words than he needs is making a chore for the reader who reads. That's why my belief is the briefer the brief is, the greater the sigh of the reader's relief is. And that's why your books have such power and strength. You publish with shorth! (Shorth is better than length.)

I like to keep my surroundings low-key. I don't need much around me. I'm easy don't need a lot of racket.

We have very little, so we have nothing to be preoccupied with. The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have, the more free you are.

I think I learned a really important lesson, as an actress, that hair and make-up is great, but the lack of it is better.

Now that I have the opportunities to do a lot, I want to do less.

The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.

I had to find a way to paint abstractly, which is what I wanted to do. I couldn't forget Wassily Kandinsky and Kazimir Malevich and Piet Mondrian, I mean that was the basis.

I do think that it's always okay to show too little. People will still be interested. So why show too much?