John Tiffany Quotes

I try to play the bare essence, to let everything be just what it's supposed to be.

Less is more! I don't wear makeup if I don't have to.

It's the ultimate task to do something stripped back, so you're not hiding behind anything.

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

I believe that things can be expressed very powerfully through simplicity.

I'm a big fan of simplicity, especially with songs and I try not to make them complicated. I just make them simple and let people absorb that message themselves. That's my theory.

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

The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.

If it was up to me, we would eliminate close-ups and beautiful light and sound - because we want to go back to basics.

That's the attitude I approach everything with: I don't want there to be a lot of dressing on anything.

What attracted me about my mirrors was the idea of having nothing manipulated in them. A piece of bought mirror. Just hung there, without any addition, to operate immediately and directly. Even at the risk of being boring. Mere demonstration. The mirrors, and even more the Panes of Glass, were also certainly directed against Duchamp, against his Large Glass.

We should work for simple, good, undecorated things.

My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

The simplest things are often the truest.

I've always liked simplicity.

I keep everything very simple. I like telling stories.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

I think a girl looks good when she wakes up with nothing on her face.

My job, and that's my job, is to dress the naked truth. To make it interesting, to make it viable, to make it seem like something you understand and feel and love.

In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

True simplicity is, well, you just keep on going and going until you get to the point where you go, 'Yeah, well, of course.' Where there's no rational alternative.

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

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

Simplicity is the key.