Charles Bukowski Quotes

The simpler the insight, the more profound the conclusion.

Real wisdom is simple. Living life rightly does not have to be a complicated challenge.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness.

All of our technology is completely unnecessary to a happy life.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people's perspectives... I really try and live the mission of the company and... keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.

In the West, we look at art through life. Well, that's one way of living. In the Orient they look at life through art. They even drink their tea without sugar, for the same reason that they don't like a lot of frilly decorations on a painting. I can't stand butter on my bread for the same reason. I'm allergic to goo and rococo.

Life isn't always easy, but it's simple.

Sometimes the simplest things are the most profound.

Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.

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

In my own life, as the nearer I get to the end of life on this earth, the simpler I want to become.

The older I get, the more I desire simplicity.

My own personal task is not simply that of poet and writer (still less commentator, pseudo-prophet); it is basically to praise God out of an inner center of silence, gratitude, and 'awareness.' This can be realized in a life that apparently accomplishes nothing. Without centering on accomplishment or nonaccomplishment, my task is simply the breathing of this gratitude from day to day, in simplicity, and for the rest turning my hand to whatever comes, work being part of praise, whether splitting logs or writing poems, or best of all simple notes.

Life is simple unless we find a way to make it complicated.

Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound.

Simplicity of life is an essential for greatness of life.

The older you get the simpler you want to make it.

As I unclutter my life, I free myself to answer the callings of my soul.

Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.

Generally, I am opposed to painting which is concerned with conceptions of simplicity. Everything looks busy to me.

I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.

My motto is that I enjoy life. I think there's a kind of simplicity to that way of thinking.

The key to all knowledge comes in words of just one syllable, apparently.... There's only the last page left to write on. I'll fill it with words of just one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.