Alice Ripley Quotes

It's not what you play but what you leave out that makes the difference.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.

It's so important to work with material you can really mold and milk and create and evolve.

I cut up loads. I always want everything shorter, shorter, shorter.

So much of artistic creation is just exclusion. It's not creating things; it's just excluding things that really aren't going to be helpful.

Sometimes I think albums are so ambitious, they don't stand as bodies of work because you try to achieve so much, and sometimes we need to do less. Say less.

There are so many tricks and so much eye candy in cinema. What I love about the classicism of genre is that there's a discipline. I think it's a healthy thing to resist all that candy.

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?

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

There is but one art, to omit.

Acknowledge the elegance of simplicity.

Artistry is to a large degree simplicity.

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve; we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old, condensation to that which was diffuse, perspicuity to that which was obscure, and currency to that which was recondite.

If you don't know what to play, play nothing.

The gardener uses both roses in the flowerbed and thorns in making fences.

Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense.

Write even when the world is chaotic. You don’t need a cigarette, silence, music, a comfortable chair, or inner peace to write. You just need ten minutes and a writing implement.

You learn from music, from watching great athletes at work - how disciplined they are, how they move. You learn these things by watching a shortstop at work, how he concentrates on one thing at a time. You learn from classic music, from the blues and jazz, from bluegrass. From all this, you learn how to sustain a great line without bringing in unnecessary words.

Football is an art form in itself. All sports are.

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