“There is
one art,
no more,
no less:
to do
all things
with art-
lessness.”
Piet Hein (1905–1996) Danish puzzle designer, mathematician, author, poet
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“Discern more; do less.”
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W. Douglas P. Hill (1884–1962) British Indologist
Source: The Bhagavadgītā (1973), p. 95. (1.)
“The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it.”
Josef Mengele (1911–1979) Nazi officer and physician
As quoted in Surfing the Tao : A Revolution of Free Will (2004) by Angela V. Michaels
Variant: The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it.
William Joseph Dendinger (1939) Catholic bishop
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“The world is full of objects, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more.”
Douglas Huebler (1924–1997) American conceptual artist
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“How dare any state or group of individuals do more. Or less.”
Robert Nozick book Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Source: Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974), Ch. 10 : A Framework for Utopia; Utopia and the Minimal State, p. 333
Context: Is not the minimal state, the framework for utopia, an inspiring vision?
The minimal state treats us as inviolate individuals, who may not be used in certain ways by others as means or tools or instruments or resources; it treats us as persons having individual right with the dignity this constitutes. Treating us with respect by respecting our rights, it allows us, individually or with whom we please, to choose our life and to realize our ends and our conception of ourselves, insofar as we can, aided by the voluntary cooperation of other individuals possessing the same dignity. How dare any state or group of individuals do more. Or less.
"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.