chippendale
“A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.”
—Mies van der Rohe
simplicity
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak ~ Hans Hofmann * The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials ~ Lin Yutang * There is no greatness where there is no simplicity ~ Leo Tolstoy * Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance ~ Jon Franklin * The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply ~ Kahlil Gibran * It is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson * The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity nothing is better than simplicity ~ Walt Whitman * Simplicity is an exact medium between too little and too much ~ Sir Joshua Reynolds * Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distintinction ~ W. Somerset Maugham * Confusion and clutter are the failure of design, not the attributes of information ~ Edward R. Tufte * Simplicity is the