Philip James Bailey Quotes

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.

Land really is the best art.

Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.

It fascinates me to create beautiful paintings with the simplest means.

Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.

I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.

Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

What is art? Nature concentrated.

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.

A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.

Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

Nature engenders the science of painting.

As much as I love art, there is no art as fine as the world we have been given.

All my wire sculptures come from the same loop. And there's only one way to do it. The idea is to do it simply, and you end up with a shape.

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 just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don't try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordinary.

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

In the beginning, I was truly trying to take what I felt when I was in a field or in an outdoor space and directly translate it into the music.