John Constable Quotes

An all-white space has a purity that is refreshing and serene.

When you play Mozart, it's so clean, it's so simple. It's the body naked.

It was Sophie ( Sophie Arp Tauber, woman artist and later Arp's wife) who, by the example of her work and her life, both of them bathed in clarity, showed me the right way. In her world, the high and the low, the light and the dark, the eternal and the ephemeral, are balanced in prefect equilibrium.

Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.

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

I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art.

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

White is actually one of my favorite colors. I have a white car. I love white.

A painting should be tough; it should have muscle, but I have to find some tenderness in it, too. There has to be that dynamic.

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

I love simplicity.

Beautiful things comfort; they bring a real clarity and ease. We have to continue to make our environments beautiful - it's sort of like a prayer. If you surround yourself with beautiful things, you have a better life - one with more oxygen.

For me life is simple and consistent.

As we move towards resolution and understanding and greater serenity in all aspects of our life, love's pretty elemental and that's nice to know. I think rock 'n' roll is the same. I don't pretend to understand it; it feels confusing and frightening and wonderful.

Clarity is important. Part of what I'm trying to do with some of these pictures is eliminate as much of the potential, as many kind of readings as people might want to make, as possible.

White is hands down my favorite color and the color I wear the most.

While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.

In everything, love simplicity.

I'll say she looks as clear as morning roses newly washed with dew.

There is a majesty in simplicity.

Everything is so infinitely simple, so infinitely beautiful.

This is no science, this is art, where equations fall away to elements like resolving chords, and where always prevails a symmetry either explicit or multiplex, but always of a crystalline serenity.