“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
“Because most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you'll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, “Is this necessary?” But we need to eliminate unnecessary assumptions as well. To eliminate the unnecessary actions that follow.”
— Marcus Aurelius, book Meditations
Hays translation
Source: Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book IV, 24
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "Because most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you'll have more time, and more tranquill…" by Marcus Aurelius?
Marcus Aurelius400
Emperor of Ancient Rome 121–180Related quotes
“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.”
Hans Hofmann (1880–1966) American artist
As quoted in Zen and the Art of Stand-up Comedy (1998) by Jay Sankey
1970s and later
John R. Leopold (1943) politician
Hometown Annapolis - County Executive Leopold's FY08 Budget Address http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2007/05_02-02/TOP
“If you eliminate all the words of a subject, you have eliminated the subject.”
Neil Postman (1931–2003) American writer and academic
Language Education in a Knowledge Context (1980)
Context: As one learns the language of a subject, one is also learning what the subject is.... what we call a subject consists mostly, if not entirely, of its language. If you eliminate all the words of a subject, you have eliminated the subject.
Antonin Artaud (1896–1948) French-Occitanian poet, playwright, actor and theatre director
General Security: The Liquidation of Opium (1925)
Sugar Ray Leonard (1956) American boxer
On his come back fight against Marvin Hagler http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE2DD1F31F931A35756C0A960948260
“We may eliminate death someday but I doubt if we’ll ever eliminate taxes.”
Robert A. Heinlein book I Will Fear No Evil
Source: I Will Fear No Evil (1970), Chapter 24, p. 406
“Eliminate the Diaspora, or the Diaspora will surely eliminate you.”
Ze'ev Jabotinsky (1880–1940) Jewish leader
Tisha B'av (1937).
John Prescott (1938) Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1997–2007)
Speech in the House of Commons (13 July 2004); Hansard http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmhansrd/cm040713/debtext/40713-09.htm#40713-09_spmin2, House of Commons, 6th Series, vol. 423, col. 1268