Top 14 Minimalists Quotes
#2. These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends.
Ang Lee
#4. The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimize themselves in favor of the ideal ... But I just can't. You see, my paintings are not cool.
Agnes Martin
#5. If you wait for inspiration to write you're not a writer, you're a waiter.
Dan Poynter
#6. Some days you get the bear, some days the bear gets you, and some days you cannot even find the woods.
MariJo Moore
#7. Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything ... I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. It's better than being bad at being insane, right? How tragic would it be to be runner-up for Bipolar Woman of the Year?
Carrie Fisher
#8. There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
Pat Conroy
#9. If we were all minimalists instead of conspicuous consumers, there would be less demand on the world's resources and we'd have a smaller, less berserk economy. We'd be less likely to harm the only planet we'll ever have, and the super-rich would have fewer ways to exploit us.
Robert Wringham
#10. Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.
Ann Beattie
#11. Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.
Maya Lin
#12. Hemingway's minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope of 1980s minimalists: a pattern of reference to dire secrets and hidden wounds these authors didn't realize they were supposed to have imagined.
Madison Smartt Bell
#13. Just try and live. Try and be happy. Or else, what's the fucking point?
Tillie Cole
#14. Minimalists are people who only own what they really need on a regular basis.
Emile Joy
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