Simplicity

“Progress in thinking is progress toward simplicity.”

“I always remember something that people say is a cliché. “Less is more.” I do it all the time.”

“I was looking for a simple architecture, one that could immediately communicate that which in the past was known as ‘monumental,’ that is, in the sense of ‘Civic Dignity.’”

“When things are few and people's hearts are straightforward, complicated teachings are unnecessary.”

“One should not try to solve a problem via solving a more general problem.”

“I lived a pretty quiet life.”

“In many ways, it is the perfect game.”

“Everything starts from a dot.”

“Radio stations didn’t have to have a committee to listen to the record, or a program manager to see if it fitted their format.”

“In my desperate struggle to free art from the ballast of the objective world I fled to the form of the Square.”

“Não existe teatro sem fita crepe.”

“I just want to make a tray of good tofu. If people want something else, they should go to the restaurants and shops.”

“I think they should just get on with it, cut to the chase, tell the story!”

“I believe in quality more than quantity.”

“I don’t make anything besides tofu.”

“Tôi chỉ làm cơn gió thổi.”

“The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo.”

“Those whose words are many have little grace.”

“Duy tính ưa suối đá, mà chí khí ở nơi hồ biển.”

“The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask; Room to deny ourselves; a road To bring us daily nearer God.”