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William Shakespeare 699
English playwright and poet 1564–1616Related quotes
“There is
one art,
no more,
no less:
to do
all things
with art-
lessness.”
Ars Brevis
Grooks
“The more a man cultivates the arts, the less randy he becomes.”
Plus l'homme cultive les arts, moins il bande.
Variant translation: The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates.
Journaux intimes (1864–1867; published 1887), Mon cœur mis à nu (1864)
“The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature.”
What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.
Intentions (1891)
“It was all a matter of control. And Choice.
Nothing more, nothing less”
Source: The Devil and Miss Prym
“The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art,
Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.”
Satire I, l. 51.
Love of Fame (1725-1728)
“If there's nothing in here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?”
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006)
"Andrea del Sarto", line 70
"Less is more" is often misattributed to architects Buckminster Fuller or Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. It is something of a motto for minimalist philosophy. It was used in 1774 by Christoph Martin Wieland.
Men and Women (1855)
Context: 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.
The American Background http://books.google.com/books?id=akasAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Legislation+is+a+matter+of+more+or+less+intelligent+improvisation+aiming+at+palliating+conditions+by+means+of%22+%22patchwork+policies%22&pg=PA65#v=onepage, Freedom and Culture (1939)
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