Our great Canadian modernist, David Milne said: “The painter doesn’t try to reproduce the scene before him… he simplifies and eliminates until he knows exactly what stirred him, sets this down in color and line as simply and as powerfully as possible and so translates his impression into an aesthetic emotion.” and “All detail is to increase interest in parts of the picture and so distract from the thrill of the whole.”
Picasso somewhat more dryly quipped: “Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. ”
Break-a-Brush!
David
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“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.” Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living.