Keep it simple. If it gets complicated it isn't going to work. Skill alone don't make a picture. Appropriate data analysis requires just a lot of critical thinking about the data. Hand-drawing is more realistic than photography, good old drawings win again, sincerely simple things make painterly paintings.
Each simple image is a narrative that tells a story full of absurdity and uncertainty.
Money has always been a huge barrier to creativity. How to obtain the largest visibility with the minimal effort? Successful pictures show off their personal style in unique ways. Minimalism stripped to its essentials.
"What you see is what the need to redefine the role of the artist"
Donald Judd, "Nothing is even too much for shallow art",
What can be done with fewer is done in vain with more. Nothing is for free, but the beauty of everyday thing (Bill of Ockham).
Cultural conformity is thought to be a key factor in the evolution of complex culture in harebrained humans.
Unexplainable post-modernist self-aware irony is not cooler than pictures of real fairies, because the ways in which we get information is just as important as that information.
Viewers could immediately grasp the essence of the subject without getting lost in extraneous details.
Irony allows for a nimbleness and flexibility, both in terms of timeline and, more importantly, in terms of the ways in which art and design can be mixed in unexpected and surprising ways. Ethics and aesthetics are one and the same for art.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus
Less is more and ornament is crime. Interesting artworks have simple, but deeply meaningful lives. The image has pure merit in finding the best way to un-complicate our complex hypotheses.
Postmodernism has now become a historicist, period term for the era beginning with the sixties and ending somewhere around the fall of the Berlin wall.
Theoretical and whimsical visual economy in art.
Simplicity is not minimalism.
W. J. T. Mitchell, Don't be afraid to mess up; that's just part of being an archetypal artist. Unattractive artworks wreck society. Unattractive pictures are the problem. The brilliantly stupid voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes, and collaborative art models.