“The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; It is this.”
Chinua Achebe
“Simplify, simplify.”
Henry David Thoreau
“[To simplify] is very nearly the whole of the higher artistic process; finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without -- and yet preserve the spirit of the whole.”
Willa Sibert Cather
“Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.”
David Hume
“The male stereotype makes masculinity not just a fact of biology but something that must be proved and re-proved, a continual quest for an ever-receding Holy Grail”
Marc Feigen Fasteau
“The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: 'It's a girl”
Shirley Chisholm
“What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer.”
William Albert Allard
