I learned up less is more. The makeup used to wear me and now I wear the makeup.
What's impossible not to notice, though - it's all around us - is the diminution of American prose: How pedestrian it has become. Pick up any short story and listen to its voice, the tedious easy vernacular that mistakes transcription for realism. This would display an understandable pragmatism if it were a pandering to common-denominator readers; but it is, in fact, a kind of hifalultin literary ideology, the less-is-more Hemingway legacy put through an up-to-the-minute industrial blender.
If you read many contemporary literary novels today, you may notice that regardless of the subject matter there's a 'sameness' about them, the way in which thoughts are expressed and ideas, conveyed, the sometimes dogmatic application of what are, at best, useful maxims such as, 'less is more', the narrative techniques utilised, even the same, irritating, stylistic devices scattered like pepper all over the pages.
I think less is more in terms of makeup in general.
Less is more. Happiness is found close to the necessities of life, not in needless complexity and meaningless multiplicity of choice.
Less is more.
[In art], less is more.
A lot of people tend to chew up the scenery. I'm a firm believer in less is more, especially on the big screen.
In humor, almost always, less is more.
The simplest things are often the truest.
Some people say that less is more. But I think more is more.
But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
Glamour to the outside world is taking some sense of care in your appearance and should give you inner confidence. You can do a full on look or you can do a 'less is more' look but you want to have those components, those little things that are special to you.
Less is more, unless you're Al Gore.
Less is more only when more is too much.
Less is more when you do a bright, bold lip. Just draw on black liner and some mascara and you're good to go!
So much is said with the electricity of the eyes, the intensity of a whisper. Less is more.
The point is, stories can be all lengths. Never underestimate the power of “less is more.
Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.
Plurality should not be assumed without necessity.
