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Tag: unnecessary

Posted on February 25, 2015

Quote: Letting the Necessary Speak

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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
Hans Hofmann

Posted on October 22, 2014

Quote: Art is…

116 Fris de la Senyera, de Picasso (Col·legi d'Arquitectes, c. Capellans)

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruíz y Picasso

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Sideburns, for example, are named after the sideburn-wearing General Ambrose Burnside.
Customer: give me burnsides!
Barber: (lights blowtorch)
Customer: wait, what?
—The Ambition of a Potato

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