Top 100 Quotes About Minimalism
#2. Selfish needs, wants, and desires needed to be obliterated. Greed, overindulgence, and gluttony had to be expunged from human behavior. The solution was in self-control, in minimalism, in sparse living conditions; one simple and a brand-new dictionary filled with words everyone would understand.
Tahereh Mafi
#3. I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make - and of course, I do influence them, but they keep simplifying, and minimalism doesn't quite work.
Vivienne Westwood
#4. If the '80s were about Christian Lacroix ball gowns, the '90s give us wealthy women who either go to work or pretend to, and want office suits or slip dresses they can wear to dinner parties - ergo, the minimalism of Prada, Jil Sander, and others. But this is minimalism that comes at maximal prices.
Michael Shnayerson
#5. Minimalism is saying all by saying nothing.
Will Advise
#6. I had a very different vibe then, I was very into minimalism. I was kind of obsessed with Helmut Lang and [Martin] Margiela.
Roopal Patel
#8. I have much to learn from my daughter Sofia. Her minimalism exposes my limitations: I'm too instinctive and operatic, I put too much heart into my work, I get lost sometimes in bizarre things - it's my Italian heritage.
Francis Ford Coppola
#9. The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism.
Kevin McCloud
#10. Simplicity and serenity are close friends of minimalism.
Karen Alexander
#11. At its core, minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of everything that distracts us from
Joshua Becker
#12. Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.
Dave Grohl
#13. Minimalism is, in its essence, about getting rid of the negative and non-essential, so that you may focus more on the positive and important.
Thomas Hilmersen
#14. Minimalism has a connotation of being reductive, and not in the best way. 'Brevetist' is a better term. I'm trying to be as concise as possible and still getting across to the reader. When information is delivered in that way, it is very satisfying to me.
Susan Minot
#16. Simplicity isn't just a visual style. It's not just minimalism or the absence of clutter. It involves digging through the depth of the complexity. To be truly simple, you have to go really deep.
Walter Isaacson
#17. 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
#18. Post-minimalism implies music that's genre-less. Minimalism was very important because it came at a time when contemporary music had become so complex, so experimental and detached that people turned away from it. Minimalism broke that trend and brought music back to the people.
Maya Beiser
#19. For me, minimalism is about getting rid of unnecessary clutter (in all areas of life!), organizing what is left, and living in a peaceful, contented state, devoid of the extra stress that too much baggage brings to your life.
Kristen D. Smith
#20. Minimalism in interior design has become a caricature. Everywhere you find shops or hotels with an ambience that makes you feel like you are in a refrigerator.
Andree Putman
#21. Minimalism is not defined by what is not there but by the rightness of what is
and the richness with which this is experienced.
John Pawson
#22. 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
#23. I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.
La Monte Young
#24. Minimalism means not trying to improve perfection.
Bryant McGill
#25. I think there's a kind of built-in arrogance to anyone who considers themself an artist. They want to feel as though like they can run the whole spectrum. "I can do it all. I can do minimalism, and I can do classical art." Well, that's not true.
Sylvester Stallone
#26. WITHOUT GRACE, MINIMALISM IS ANOTHER METRIC FOR PERFECTION. Chasing
Erin Loechner
#27. Minimalism is the constant art of editing your life.
Danny Dover
#28. Minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of anything that distracts us from it.
Joshua Becker
#29. There's a particular style that is very Peru that you don't see anywhere else; it's got so many different imprints. When you mix Incan minimalism with the heavy, ornate Spanish Baroque, it is very interesting.
Mario Testino
#30. We are writing in the age of stylish minimalism that in truth has become even more cautious because of word processing. Nowadays, creative writing students are underwriting rather than overdoing it.
Stephen Kuusisto
#31. Minimalism is simply a tangible way of prioritizing your life.
Faith Janes
#32. The rules that I adhere to are the rules of minimalism. And those rules kind of force writing to be more filmic ... to have the immediacy and accessibility of film so that the reader really has to fill in a lot of the details.
Chuck Palahniuk
#33. I'm a big believer in minimalism. Not materialist minimalism, although that's part of it, but time and energy minimalism. The body is given only so much energy a day.
James Altucher
#34. Minimalism in the service of others is a logical extension of the same ethos of selflessness.
Joshua Becker
#35. Minimalism wasn't a real idea - it ended before it started.
Sol LeWitt
#36. People like Aphex Twin, Jason Pierce, Jarvis Cocker and William Orbit are actively showing their interest in a wider field of music. Jarvis and I met on a benefit for an extraordinary man called LaMonte Young, the father of minimalism, who worked with John Cale and shared a loft with Yoko Ono.
Charles Hazlewood
#37. Minimalism is a girl's best asset, blend tones, smudge hard outlines; if all else fails; Photoshop it.
Judith Chambers
#38. truth is also about increasing moral minimalism. As you learn more, you should have less need for moral opinions. Or
Venkatesh G. Rao
#39. I started reading contemporary fiction in college or right after college. It wasn't as if I was steeped in experimental minimalism when I was twelve or something. I was reading The Witch of Blackbird Pond.
Leni Zumas
#40. There's a fine line between minimalism and not trying very hard.
Tom Pappalardo
#41. I really don't understand minimalism. It is so polite and boring. If you don't want anyone to notice you, you should stay home and grow your own vegetables.
Roberto Cavalli
#42. Life is a contradiction. Minimalism and in its simplicity opens the door to complicated analysis not just to dust free spaces.
Rohan Chalmers
#43. No matter how brilliant, amusing or intelligent the creek of abstraction, Dadaism, Minimalism and Conceptualism of the 20th century was, it didn't much affect the historical river of figuration. I predict that in 50 years and in 300 years, figurative art will still be strong and important.
Mark Kostabi
#44. There's been a lot written on the topic of minimalism. But I still believe in it.
Ryan Lilly
#45. Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
Harrison Birtwistle
#46. *feels nothing* minimalism
Unknown
#47. I was lucky to be born during the time of minimalism. I think I can be colder because of this. In form I speak with minimalism but my feeling is sentimental - I am a sentimental minimalist.
Christian Boltanski
#48. My thoughts are messy, my emotions are messy, my body goes in and out at will. The raised white scars on my arms and legs are the only aspect of my being that comes close to minimalism. They came from chaos, but it is hard to carve frustration and unease into the flesh. Only straight lines.
Emma Forrest
#49. "Simple" is a tricky word, it can mean a lot of things. To us, it just means clear. That doesn't always mean total reduction, or minimalism - sometimes, to make things clearer, you have to add a step.
Jason Fried
#50. When I started making dances in the '60s, narrative dance was sort of off the radar screen. What was important at the time in the avant-garde was minimalism.
Twyla Tharp
#51. Fashion is meant to be wild and expressive. I love colour but I also love basics - grungy minimalism mixed with this kind of broken-down cheerleader, is my thing.
Charli XCX
#52. This neo-minimalism super cold stuff is weird to me. I need a place where I can come home and take my shoes off.
Frank Gehry
#53. Minimalism is an attitude. It is the intention to keep the things that are of true value to you and to get rid of those that distract you from them. This attitude eventually becomes a way of life and is embodied in all aspects of your existence. Letting
Joshua Cole
#54. My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
Abbas Kiarostami
#55. Things like anatomy and drawing and design and color had pretty much been drop-kicked out of the curriculum in the '70s, when I was studying art, in favor of abstraction and minimalism.
David Small
#56. Minimalism is close to mediocrity and mindlessness, a way for the ungifted to have a literary career, and for readers who really hate literature to pretend to be reading something serious.
Paul West
#57. Minimalism is the pursuit of the essence of things, not the appearance.
Claudio Silvestrin
#58. As an evil cultist, I make an excellent evil cultist. Only I'm stupid, and not evil. And I worship nothing, really.
Will Advise
#59. Real luxury is not working like a maniac to take an expensive vacation--it is living a life you enjoy every day.
Kathy Gottberg
#60. Own less stuff. Enjoy more freedom. It really is that simple.
Joshua Becker
#61. You can kill people with sound. And if you can kill, then maybe there is also the sound that is opposite of killing. And the distance between these two points is very big. And you are free
you can choose. In art everything is possible, but everything is not necessary.
Arvo Part
#62. The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work.
Ray Kurzweil
#63. Sometimes, minimizing possessions means a dream must die. But this is not always a bad thing. Sometimes, it takes giving up the person we wanted to be in order to fully appreciate the person we can actually become.
Joshua Becker
#64. Good food, fresh water, and an occasional sweet and someone to care for. That's what everyone should have. A simplistic and unrealistic view I knew, but it soothed me.
Maria V. Snyder
#65. A big group of daily friends or a white painted house with bills and mirrors, are not a necessity to me - but an intelligent conversation while sharing another coffee, is.
Charlotte Eriksson
#66. Your home is living space, not storage space.
Francine Jay
#67. When you give your items away, don't keep the excess of your pride.
Bremer Acosta
#68. A well-used minimum suffices for everything.
Jules Verne
#69. 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
#70. ...you need to assess what you love right now and what is authntic to your way of living in this season of life.
Melissa Michaels
#71. A minimalist does not charge you for what he did. He charges you for what he did not do.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#73. Instead of trying to understand who we really are, we reach for the "Real Thing". And when the goods we buy fail to match up to those deep desires, instead of giving up on material goods, we just keep banging our heads against the wall and buying more.
James Wallman
#74. The problem: we put more value on our stuff than on our space
Francine Jay
#76. You don't need more space. You need less stuff.
Joshua Becker
#77. To find doesn't always require to search.
Will Advise
#78. Edit your life frequently and ruthlessly. It's your masterpiece after all.
Nathan W. Morris
#79. You sell off the kingdom piece by piece and trade it for a horse that will take you anywhere.
Colin Wright
#80. My goal is no longer to get more done, but rather to have less to do.
Francine Jay
#81. If you have clutter in your real life, your tangible life, then it really adds to the emotional clutter in your mind.
Giuliana Rancic
#82. For awhile, I was left with nothing on the physical plane. I had no relationships, no job, no home, no socially defined identity. I spent almost two years sitting on park benches in a state of the most intense joy.
Eckhart Tolle
#83. It's not always that we need to do more but rather that we need to focus on less.
Nathan W. Morris
#84. Southerners had a long tradition of looking for religious significance in even the most humble forms of nature, and I always preferred the explanations of folklore to the icy interpretations of science.
Pat Conroy
#87. Simplicity is all but nothing that's there.
Shawn Lukas
#89. I am a worried person with a stressed out soul, living a simple life with no capital.
Charlotte Eriksson
#90. This is today! What will tomorrow bring? Life arrives and departs on its own schedule, not ours; it's time to travel light, and be ready to go wherever it takes us.
Meg Wolfe
#92. Useless and precious objects. Taking up space. Taking up time.
Maira Kalman
#93. To storm, a mind, it must be balanced,
by what can't be it must be challenged...
Will Advise
#94. So through a world of piety I made my way to Sebastian.
Evelyn Waugh
#95. I've found that the less stuff I own, the less my stuff owns me.
Nathan W. Morris
#96. There were missteps. Things collected that we didn't really need. Money spent that might have been saved. Arguments that we'd one day learn to navigate.
Erin Boyle
#97. Do you think the wren ever dreams of a better house?
Mary Oliver
#98. The Ideal
This is where I came from.
I passed this way.
This should not be shameful
Or hard to say.
A self is a self.
It is not a screen.
A person should respect
What he has been.
This is my past
Which I shall not discard.
This is the ideal.
This is hard.
James Fenton
#99. I am a minimalist. I like saying the most with the least.
Bob Newhart
#100. The first step in crafting the life you want is to get rid of everything you don't.
Joshua Becker
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