"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."

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"It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

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"If you're going to play hockey now, you have to be able to play. If you have the ability to fight and play, you're an unbelievable commodity. But if you can only fight, there might be six of those guys left in the league, and I can guarantee they're going fast."

Brett Hull, American Athlete

Ability, Fight, Now, Play

"I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself."

Ike Turner, American Musician

Ability, Confidence, Fighting, Losing

"Pluripotent cells have the ability to grow into any cell in the body."

Nathan Deal, American Politician

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"There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child."

Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American Poet

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"The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly."

Vance Packard, American Writer

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"I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar."

Mike Figgis, English Director

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"Those who can't, try: those who can, don't have to."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

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"A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate."

Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist

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"When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium."

Art

"Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist."

Art

"Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic."

Art

"Painters must speak through paint, not through words."

Art

"It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws."

Work

"Through a painting we can see the whole world."

Painting

"What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation."

Art

"Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel."

Colors

"Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony."

Music

"My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature."

Life