Constantin Brâncuși (1876-1954, sculptor)
"In art, one does not aim for simplicity; one achieves it unintentionally as one gets closer to the real meaning of things." (AZQuotes.com)
André Breton (1896-1966, poet)
"The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public form entering if one wishes to avoid confusion." (AZQuotes.com)
Fred Brooks (1931-2022, computer scientist)
"Study after study shows that the very best designers produce structures that are faster, smaller, simpler, clearer and produced with less effort." (No Silver Bullet, 1986)
Marcus Buckingham (1966-now, writer)
"Clarity is the antidote to anxiety, and therefore clarity is the preoccupation of the effective leader. If you do nothing else as a leader, be clear." (The One Thing You Need to Know, 2005)
Albercht Dürer (1471-1528, artist)
"Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art." (AZQuotes.com)
Theo van Doesburg (1883-1931, artist)
"Every part becomes organized into a whole with the other pats. All the parts contribute to the unity of the composition, none of them assuming a dominant place in the whole." (Grundbegriffe de neuen gestaltenden Kunst, 1921-1923)
Adrian Frutiger (1928-2015, typeface designer)
"When it is good design, the reader has to feel comfortable because the letter is both banal and beautiful." (AZQuotes.com)
Antonio Gaudí (1852-1926, architect)
"Originality consists of returning to the origin. Thus, originality means returning, through one's resources, to the simplicity of the early solutions." (AZQuotes.com)
Sol LeWitt (1928-2007)
"The ideas need not be complex. Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple. Successful ideas generally have the appearance of simplicity because they seem inevitable." (Paragraphs on Conceptual Art, 1967)
Franz Marc (1880-1916, artist)
"Whenever we have seen a crevice in the crust of convention, we have called attention to it, because we have hoped for a force underneath, which will someday come to light." (AZQuotes.com)
Stanley Morison (1889-1967, typeface designer)
"Type design moves at the pace of the most conservative reader. The good type-designer therefore realizes that for a new font to be successful, it has to be so good that only very few recognize its novelty." (AZQuotes.com)
David Salle (1952-now, artist)
"Once established, a successful style looks like an inevitability - maybe that's the definition of a successful style - but there's often a time when it looks like anything but." (Interview with John Baldessari, Interview Magazine, 2013)
Antoni Tàpies (1923-2012, artist)
"Art should startle the viewer into thinking about the meaning of life." (AZQuotes.com)
Julie Taymor (1952-now, director)
"Limitations force you to find the essence of what you want to say, which is one of the most important things to know for an artist." (Quoted in Oh girl: A Talk with Julie Taymor, 2008)
