Minimalist Quotes · Page 3

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

— Trevor Paglen

But that kind of falls in line; when you think about it, James Brown was a funk minimalist. All of those parts…

— Charlie Hunter

We have a responsibility to give people opportunities to do what they can do. It's a fundamental tenet of democratic society. Libertarians…

— Mitch Kapor

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

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 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 consider minimalism not as a destination but rather as a tool and a mindset to reduce distractions and overwhelm. It is…

— Lisa J. Shultz

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

— Matt Damon

“Simplicity is complex. It's never simple to keep things simple. Simple solutions require the most advanced thinking.”

— Richie Norton

I always liked the visuals to be choice and at the same time minimalist. And, I love black boxes. After all, that's…

— Harold Prince

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

— Leon M. Lederman

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…

— Albert Brooks

“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

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

— Iris Apfel

The intention of this way of life [voluntary simplicity] is not to dogmatically live with less. It's a more demanding intention of…

— Duane Elgin

I like Modernism. I grew up around these sort of eclectic, heavily carved, baroque, rococo, highly ornamented styles that were in my…

— Paul Brown

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

— Francis Jourdain

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

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“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 was lucky to be born during the time of minimalism. I think I can be colder because of this. In form…

— Christian Boltanski

As far as accessories are concerned, I think it is always best to be as minimalist as possible.

— Alice Temperley

I would love, more than anything, to do an out-and-out farce with huge physical energy. Just because you're from the minimalist school,…

— Aidan Quinn

Black and white is a very minimalist art form and unlike color photographs does not pretend to mimic the world in a…

— Roger Ballen

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…

— Philip Glass