What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer.

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I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don't find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the edges.

William Albert Allard

Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.

William Albert Allard

You've got to push yourself harder. You've got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You've got to take the tools you have and probe deeper.

William Albert Allard

In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color.

William Albert Allard

What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer.

William Albert Allard

All I need is my brains, my eyes and my personality, for better or for worse.

William Albert Allard

What is right? Simply put, it is any assignment in which the photographer has a significant spiritual stake... spiritually driven work constitutes the core of a photographer's contribution to culture.

William Albert Allard

And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee.

Bernard Cornwell

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

Walt Whitman

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

I just like simplicity. I like simple songs, I like simple chords, simple vocals, simple lead guitar. I just like simplicity. That's just the way I like it.

Jeremy Spencer

Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.

Constantin Brancusi

So with that will prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, I will speak of three things with simplicity and love as if I were speaking to my own soul.

Ignatius Loyola

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

Fanny Kemble

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.

Stephen Leacock

Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

E. T. A. Hoffmann

Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.

Riccardo Muti

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

Alan Perlis

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Herman Boerhaave

French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well.

Edward Sapir

Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity.

Branford Marsalis

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.

Edsger Dijkstra

They are unique in the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life that they enclose.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Simplicity makes me happy.

Alicia Keys

No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.

William Kingdon Clifford

I despise simplicity. It is the negation of all that is beautiful.

Norman Hartnell

The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.

Edward Teller

Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.

Felix Adler

In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science.

Simon Greenleaf

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

Charles Dudley Warner

The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.

Charles Eastman

These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages.

Edward Sapir

A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.

Andy Goldsworthy

The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection.

John Millington Synge

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

Thor Heyerdahl

I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function.

Donald Norman

I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

Yves Saint Laurent

In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

Alexander Pope

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

Albrecht Durer

Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.

Paul Rand

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

Leo Tolstoy

For simplicity one can think of the + class as having one extra base at some point or other in the genetic message and the - class as having one too few.

Francis Crick

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

Frederic Chopin