George Sand Quotes

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Simplicity is the outcome of technical subtlety. It is the goal, not the starting point.

It's very easy to learn. And very difficult to master.

Complex things, if you don't understand them, it seems complicated. If you understand them, and we know how to handle it, it became simple.

Any idiot can be complicated. It takes a genius to be simple.

It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.

The ballets you do make you into the final product you are. And I had extraordinary partners.

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.

There is nothing like practice.

I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better.

Experience really does make you better, man.

Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.

Practice is the best of all instructors.

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of.

The biggest challenge to me is always technique.

The essence of style is a simple way of saying something complex.

If you're any good at all at what you do, you get better the more you do it.

You've got to perfect your craft.