Frederic Chopin Quotes

The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

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

You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

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.

I love the way in which I make up dances. It's a complicated way and the product is usually clear. Clear and simple. I don't need everybody to know that there are all of these fabulous things going on. If you CAN see it, that's wonderful.

I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art.

If I was painting a picture, I wouldn't want to take a picture of a single paint stroke. I'd rather show people what it looks like when it's done.

I doubt Picasso ever painted a picture in an hour, he took his time, looked at every detail and made sure it was perfect.

I'd rather not ever make anything overly simple just because I'm scared people won't get it.

You can't ever reach perfection in this business, but that's one of the things I love. It's something that can't ever be mastered, but you can attempt to get as close as possible.

The biggest lesson I've learned about drawing is that it takes time. Which is really annoying.

Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.

Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings?

I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort

You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life

Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday, to construct a respectable haiku.

The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science.

whatever a work of art may be, the artist certainly cannot dare to be simple. He must have a nature as complicated and as violent, as totally unsuggestive of the word innocence, as a modern war.

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

Art is about eliminating almost everything in order to focus on the thing that you need to talk about.

There was very little art in my childhood.

It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.