Paul Crosby

“Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.”
― William Strunk Jr., The Elements of Style

“When a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter. Thus, brevity is a by-product of vigor.”
― William Strunk, The Elements of Style

“Aestheticism is the garbage of intuitive feeling.”
― Kazimir Severinovich Malevich

“A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau