Anders Fogh Rasmussen Quotes

I'm interested in the essence of things. If you pare things down, what's left? It's like I'm trying to describe the soul to an alien.

It's a matter of reducing the work to its very simplest possible state, eliminating all of the things that lead away from the guts of the work, the thing the work is really about. Anything that's there must build towards its over-all organization and meaning.

Deep and simple are far, far more important than shallow and complicated and fancy.

When it comes down to, it's not about the form, it's about the content.

I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex.

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter.

Only a few things are really important.

Eliminate the unnecessary and focus on the substance.

When you blow away the foam, you get down to the real stuff.

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which surrounds them.

Fact is richer than diction.

Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.

The important thing is, that I guess I don't spend any time thinking about what I am or what we do means. I spend my time doing it.

I feel a sudden clear focus and perspective. There is no time for anything inessential.

No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing.

Knowing what to leave out is just as important as knowing what to focus on.

Give me truths for I am weary of the surfaces.

Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.

It is as easy to create a castle as a button. It's just a matter of whether you're focused on a castle or a button.

One of the most significant design principles is to omit the unimportant in order to emphasize the important.

No matter how long your journey appears to be, there is never more than this: one step, one breath, one moment... Now.

I don't mind hidden depths but I insist that there be a surface.

I soon learned to scent out that which was able to lead to fundamentals and to turn aside from everything else, from the multitude of things which clutter up the mind and divert it from the essential.

It doesn't matter what you can do if you don't know why you're doing it.

My goal is to omit everything superfluous so that the essential is shown to best possible advantage.