Minimalist Quotes · Page 2

One can furnish a room very luxuriously by taking out furniture rather than putting it in.

— Francis Jourdain

I love a strong brow and ChapStick with glowing skin and messy hair. I'm a minimalist at heart.

— Ariana Madix

I've been a minimalist my whole life, even if you wouldn't know it from my office.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“A minimalist does not charge you for what he did. He charges you for what he did not do.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“You cannot have a taste for minimalist décor if you seriously read books.”

— Linda Grant

“When you become a minimalist, you free yourself from all the materialist messages that surround us.”

— Fumio Sasaki

I'm a minimalist kind of person: only one pair of boots, one pair of pants, and if I could, only one shirt.

— Jason Ralph

“Clutter may rob us of the life we imagined or prevent us from creating a new vision for our future.”

— Lisa J. Shultz

“When I own less, fewer things go wrong and need to be fixed. I have more space: openings in my calendar, room…

— Lisa J. Shultz

“We all have a million things vying for our attention. If you tell yourself that you don’t have enough time to clear…

— Lisa J. Shultz

I like sparseness. There's something about that minimalist feel that can make something have an immediate impact and make it unique. I'll…

— Britt Daniel

I knew I could never be accepted as a straight-ahead jazz musician, nor would Iaccept myself as that. I would never be…

— Anthony Davis

“Minimizing can be exhilarating. If you continue decluttering, you just might find a zest for life that you didn’t know existed under…

— Lisa J. Shultz

I'm a minimalist, for sure. A couple homies saw Kanye West's crib with barely anything in it and thought it looked weird.…

— Giveon

“We think we can't become a minimalist until our lives have settled down. But it's actually the other way around; we won't…

— Fumio Sasaki

As for futuristic costumes, I loved doing 'Gattaca' because I'm a minimalist at heart, and it's a very minimal film. Plus, with…

— Colleen Atwood

My writing became more and more minimalist. In the end, I couldn't write at all. For seven or eight years, I hardly…

— Karl Ove Knausgaard

“It’s tough to come up with an exact definition of a minimalist as there are bound to be elements that we’ll end…

— Fumio Sasaki

Any time someone doesn't like one on the first run, I hope they will give it another shot. At least we'll get…

— Wes Anderson

Most films and directors lose their nerve and want to indicate [emotions] a bit more, to show that their story is clear.…

— Matt Damon

If I have ideas, I want to put them in the movie. It's not a minimalist approach at all but I feel…

— Wes Anderson

I always have separated myself from my critiques of collections. My judgment is not about whether I would wear it - but…

— Suzy Menkes

I'm a minimalist. I see things in simple ways...It's human nature to define complexity as better. Well, it's not.

— Gordon Willis

“It’s one thing to have all that you need. It’s another thing to recognize that you have all you need.”

— Toyin Omofoye

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

— Francisco Costa

I did the first 'Oxygene' on an 8 tracks tape recorder with very few instruments, with no other choice than being minimalist.

— Jean-Michel Jarre

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

— Leon M. Lederman

“In a world dominated by extroverts and exhibitionism, the quiet ones make the loudest impact with their silence – it's their superpower”

— Brahmanand Savanth

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

— The Edge

I have personal issues with clutter. I, personally, am very minimalist and like a clean slate. I like to throw everything away.

— Tempestt Bledsoe

I was pretty much a minimalist. I liked a lot of black at the time, which is very different from my wardrobe…

— Roopal Patel

I'm a minimalist. I don't really need much to enjoy a good holiday - just my family and the bare essentials.

— Jean Reno

“Don’t look at the person who has it all. Look to the person who doesn’t need it all.”

— Toyin Omofoye

You can't be minimalist as a director until you have acquired the experience and confidence to say no.

— Richard Eyre

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

— Sebastian Clovis

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

— Trevor Paglen

It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.

— Dwight Yoakam

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

— Anonymous

My wife and I battle over home decor. My style goes from Gothic to Baroque. Hers is minimalist.

— Joe Bastianich

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

— Richard McGuire