Ludovico Einaudi Quotes

Art, it seems to me, should simplify.

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.

I'd rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book.

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.

It's amazing what you can do without in terms of filmmaking when a story is really important.

I couldn't go into the haphazard drawing or the paintings, the splashing of paint. I wanted to go back to a completely dry drawing, a dry conception of art.

I am an Indian and a painter, that's all.

The arts are what humanize science and history.

A good painting is a lot like a good joke: you need to know when to stop, too many 'punchlines and you will have gone too far.

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

Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished.

Generally, I am opposed to painting which is concerned with conceptions of simplicity. Everything looks busy to me.

Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures.

For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously. It is by economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.

All art does but consist in the removal of surplusage.

I say half jokingly that photography is the most difficult of the arts. It does require a certain arrogance to see and to choose. I feel myself walking on a tightrope instead of on the ground.

There was very little art in my childhood.

Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.

It is possible that a picture will move far away from Nature and yet find its way back to reality. The faculty of memory, experience at a distance produces pictorial associations.

One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object.

I have the gift of neither the spoken nor the written word, especially if I have to say something about myself or my work. Whoever wants to know something about me -as an artist, the only notable thing- ought to look carefully at my pictures and try and see in them what I am and what I want to do.

One can do such lovely things with so little. Subjects that are too beautiful end by appearing theatrical.

The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.

I go out to take a walk, I see something, I take a picture. I take photographs. I have avoided profound explanations of what I do.