Minimalist Quotes · Page 2

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

“My clearing has allowed me to rediscover things I stopped seeing and put them into a place of prominence.”

— Lisa J. Shultz

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

— Kathy Reichs

I'm not a minimalist, not at all. I feel much better, safer even, having a large piece.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

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

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

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

— Anthony Davis

“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

“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

In general I don't like definitions, but 'Minimalist' is a term that means elegance and openness, so I would prefer to be…

— Ludovico Einaudi

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

“The qualities I look for in the things I buy are (1) the item has a minimalist type of shape, and is…

— Fumio Sasaki

Beautiful and minimalist, the traditional Japanese art of ikebana - arranging bouquets of cut flowers and leaves using very few elements -…

— Jean-Claude Ellena

The concept of minimalism is to relax. Like a Zen monk in training, it is something that brings equilibrium to the heart.…

— Takashi Murakami

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

— Lisa J. Shultz

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.

— Victor Hugo

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

— Alice Temperley

Some people go for minimalist interiors but for me empty houses seem cold.

— KK

My personal style is somewhat androgynous and simple. With my lifestyle, I've become more of a minimalist.

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

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

— Richie Norton

You don't really need much. I try to live my life with that sort of minimalist mentality.

— Nathan Phillips

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

— Kanye West

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

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

— Toyin Omofoye

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

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

— Richard Eyre

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

— Dwight Yoakam

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

— Trevor Paglen

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

— Jean Reno