Effective Simplicity Quotes

The book, like the bicycle, is a perfect form.

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

An artist of understanding and experience can show more of his great power and art in small things roughly and rudely done, than many another in a great work. A man may often draw something with his pen on a half sheet of paper in one day . . . . and it shall be fuller of art and better than another's great work whereon he hath spent a whole year's careful labor.

I like 'Notting Hill.' If you can do a movie that's simple, but do it well, there's room for that.

We hate poetry that has a palpable design upon us - and if we do not agree, seems to put its hand in its breeches pocket. Poetry should be great & unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself but with its subject. - How beautiful are the retired flowers! how would they lose their beauty were they to throng into the highway crying out, "admire me I am a violet! dote upon me I am a primrose!"

To say more while saying less is the secret of being simple.

Any writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much.

Primitive, naive drawing can also be good drawing but it's hard to pull off. I don't think most submitters realize that.