Best 22 quotes in «less is more quotes» category

The people who brag, who show off are the ones who got nothing underneath, who are insecure and that tiny little show is all that they got in that tiny nut shell, while a really treasurer, a real successful person is the one who stays quite and enjoys the show others put on

Do only what is necessary and required. Efficiency is elegant. Less is more.

Het leven ís geen galerie, van boven tot onder in steriel wit geschilderd, met maar één kubistisch winterlandschapje aan de muur, of met maar één stuk excrement dat aan één draadje aan de zoldering hangt te draaien, of met maar één aquarium waarin op sterk water ocharme één beest ronddrijft dat proper in tweeën is gesneden, of wat er vandaag de dag verder nog allemaal naar voren wordt geschoven als zijnde 'de kunst van het moderne memento mori'.

It is strange a difference comes from a subtraction.

Less is more. Progress is made through precise, persistent, and purposeful pushes.

It's surprising how much free time and productivity you gain when you lose the busyness in your mind.

Less explanation is more convincing than more explanation.

No sketches first, no studies, that's long past: I do what many dream of, all their lives, --Dream? strive to do, and agonize to do, And fail in doing. I could count twenty such On twice your fingers, and not leave this town, Who strive--you don't know how the others strive To paint a little thing like that you smeared Carelessly passing with your robes afloat,-- Yet do much less, so much less, Someone says, (I know his name, no matter)--so much less! Well, less is more, Lucrezia: I am judged. There burns a truer light of God in them, In their vexed beating stuffed and stopped-up brain, Heart, or whate'er else, than goes on to prompt This low-pulsed forthright craftsman's hand of mine. Their works drop groundward, but themselves, I know, Reach many a time a heaven that's shut to me, Enter and take their place there sure enough, Though they come back and cannot tell the world.

Real luxury is not working like a maniac to take an expensive vacation--it is living a life you enjoy every day.

I'm from the 'less is more' school. I had to be in the 'more is more' zone with 'Dallas Buyers Club', so I was out of my comfort zone, but I had to trust that.

World creation should be an effort of great and covetous love.

I really believe in less is more. It's more sophisticated to look look and fresh and make a statement in one place.

Less is more when you do a bright, bold lip. Just draw on black liner and some mascara and you're good to go!

I shaved a lot off of a lot that I saw in that I like to be less is more and make everything count and not give anyone anything extra. I was what you see is what you got. It was organic. I came up with the persona. The persona is me, coupled together with a lot of my interests.

I think less is more in terms of makeup in general.

Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.

I learned up less is more.The makeup used to wear me and now I wear the makeup.

We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without.

The point is, stories can be all lengths. Never underestimate the power of “less is more.

Sometimes, less is more.

There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already confessed.

The simplest things are often the truest.