Minimalist Quotes

I tend to like poems that are short as well as funny. I love Joe Brainard and Aram Saroyan. And I think their sense of humor and minimalist approach are pretty radical.

I'm not a minimalist, as I'm sure you've noticed.

I'm very minimalist. However, I don't like to hang onto any particular style - whatever serves the purpose.

I'm a minimalist when it comes to design.

I think Calvin [Klein] is a minimalist.

I was pretty much a minimalist. I liked a lot of black at the time, which is very different from my wardrobe now, because I live in color.

I'm quite a physical person and I gesticulate a lot, which can be a problem when you're in Hollywood and they do everything in a minimalist way.

I'm a minimalist in a rapper's body.

I want to get lean and mean, keep it minimalist.

There are two ways to be rich: One is by acquiring much, and the other is by desiring little.

The simplest things are often the truest.

Kingsley Amis was a lenient father. His paternal style, in the early years, can best be described as amiably minimalist - in other words, my mother did it all.

This one Corbusier lamp was like, my greatest inspiration ... I'm a minimalist in a rapper's body.

I've always been the king of silence. I've always been a minimalist comedian. I've taken my influence from Jack Benny, who was the king of that I've always done 'less is more.'

To be able to impress, you have to get to this middle ground where you're not too advanced so it goes over people's heads, and you're not too minimalist where people think you're just trying to rob the game and not stretch out.

Glamour is back, but with a minimalist touch.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

The seven white notes on the piano - each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes. If you calculate it, there are 21 groups of five notes in any group of seven notes. And although there are 12 sections, this piece actually uses nine of those groups because some of the sections repeat earlier ones. So that's the formula. It's very simple as a way of generating something. It's my inner minimalist.

I'm a minimalist at heart. If a song doesn't need a solo, I'm not going to force one into it.

I never feel that my music is sparse or minimalist; the way fat people never really think they're fat. I certainly don't consider myself minimalist at all

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

But how could you live and have no story to tell?

I want to change things with everything I do, not for the sake of changing things, but for the sake of taking greater and greater risks, or how minimalist I might be able to be, or how I can involve elements or ingredients in music videos that are not musical, for instance.

I'm more eclectic.Maybe I'm minimalist in the respect that I love black...black for the winter, white for the summer, you know? But I love artisanal things.

Neutrinos ... win the minimalist contest: zero charge, zero radius, and very possibly zero mass.

I've been called a minimalist composer for more than 30 years, and while I've never really agreed with the description, I've gotten used to it.

The concept of minimalism is to relax. Like a Zen monk in training, it is something that brings equilibrium to the heart. I don't necessarily think it has any problems, but if I were to force myself to name one, I would say that since the minimalist feeling already includes its own universe, I think it might kill the drive that we would otherwise have to commit the physically impossible and attempt to travel into outer space.

I'm a minimalist. I like things to look very clean, I like clean lines. I like everything to be tidy and have space.

I really do think of them as post-minimalist sculptures, inspired in large part by some very early spacecraft that NASA built.

Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.

You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.

Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Life is balance of holding on and letting go.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

It's Twitter's combination of simplicity and complexity that is astonishing in the same way that minimalist sculpture was inspiring and enlightening.

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

Beautiful and minimalist, the traditional Japanese art of ikebana - arranging bouquets of cut flowers and leaves using very few elements - ideally corresponded to a form of expression I could transpose in a perfume. The smell of a rose early in the morning, damp, sprinkled with dew, delicate and light.

Most films and directors lose their nerve and want to indicate [emotions] a bit more, to show that their story is clear. I'm not saying that's a good thing; as an actor its anathema to good acting, but to have someone with the confidence to say that should I be utterly natural and minimalist is great.

What makes Steve [Jobs'] methodology different from everyone else's is that he always believed the most important decisions you make are not the things you do, but the things you decide not to do. He's a minimalist.

Each season I strive to design a forward-thinking and effortless collection with a very clean minimalist aesthetic.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

I've been accused of being a minimalist writer. I don't like a lot of verbiage in there.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

I knew I could never be accepted as a straight-ahead jazz musician, nor would Iaccept myself as that. I would never be accepted as a minimalist. I wouldn't be adowntown composer. Because I find all orthodoxies, all doctrines to be ultimatelybanal.

Black and white is a very minimalist art form and unlike color photographs does not pretend to mimic the world in a manner similar to the way the human eye might perceive... Black and white is essentially an abstract way to interpret and transform what one might refer to as reality.

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