Simplicity is nature’s first step, and the last of art.
Philip James Bailey
Sometimes less is more. Our quest for more, then, keeps us from it.
Jan Denise
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.
Charles Mingus
Simplicity captures and expresses the essence of the subject.
Hap Hagood
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
In composing art works, some like to simplify, some like to add realistic details.
A portrait painter can paint like a photograph, so realistic – or only with a few strokes but the viewer can still recognize who that is.
Same with origami.
Most of the folders, especially the young generation, like complex models and see them as big challenges.
Different styles make art interesting.
Simple and elegant are not at all easy to achieve, even though at first glance those works look easy to do.
With the same few folds, one pinch with a different pressure can make a big difference.
It is hard enough to paint a portrait so one can recognize the person.
Only with a few strokes and the viewer can still recognize that person? That is “The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” (Hans Hofmann)
Those few lines must capture directly the soul of the subject.