Minimalism Quotes - Page 3

• Gertrude Stein, all courage and will, is a soldier of minimalism. Her work, unlike the resonating silences in the art of Samuel Beckett, embodies in its loquacity and verbosity the curious paradox of the minimalist form. This art of the nuance in repetition and placement she shares with the orchestral compositions of Philip Glass.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Art, Glasses, Silence

  Elizabeth Hardwick (1998). “Sight-readings: American Fictions”, Random House Incorporated

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• Live simply so that others may simply live.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Simple, Diversity

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• 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

  Design, Like You, Refrigerators

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• "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

  Mean, Simple, Add

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

  David Foster

  Writing, Looks, Pieces

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• The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism.

  Kevin McCloud

  Badass, Bad Ass, Fancy

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• Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants.

  Epictetus

  Inspire, Contentment, Want

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• It depends on what kind of minimalism you're talking about, of course. I love both those artists - Brian Eno and William Basinski. I would say my minimalism references are early American minimalists from the 70s.

  Tim Hecker

  Artist, Kind

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The concept of minimalism is to relax. Like a Zen monk in training, it is something that brings equilibrium to the heart. I don't necessarily think it has any problems, but if I were to force myself to name one, I would say that since the minimalist feeling already includes its own universe, I think it might kill the drive that we would otherwise have to commit the physically impossible and attempt to travel into outer space.

  Takashi Murakami

  Heart, Thinking, Names

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• In a way, simplifying your life for vagabonding is easier than it sounds. This is because travel by its very nature demands simplicity. If you don't believe this, just go home and try stuffing everything you own into a backpack. This will never work, because no matter how meagerly you live at home, you can't match the scaled-down minimalism that travel requires.

  Rolf Potts

  Believe, Home, Simplicity

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• If one had taken what is necessary to cover one's needs and had left the rest to those who are in need, no one would be rich, no one would be poor, no one would be in need.

  Saint Basil

  Taken, Would Be, Needs

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• Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

  Frederic Chopin

  Music, Art, Simple

  "If Not God, Then What? Neuroscience, Aesthetics, and the Origins of the Transcendent". Book by Joshua Fost (p. 93), November 16, 2007.

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• 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

  Different, Kind, Obsessed

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• When I admire a writer, it's for the recognizable palette - Hemingway's minimalism, the dialogue, those isolated bar scenes. But with each story or novel, he shows me something different within the framework he's built - like noticing that there's a chair in the corner I didn't see in another story.

  Jill Talbot

  Different, Scene, Admire

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There is a tendency in my work toward minimalism, in terms of stripping away the unnecessary. I am seeking a tightly ordered gestalt, usually. I've always felt a strong affinity towards Mondrian's work. I understand the importance of those subtle planar and linear modulations he made in the course of building up the incredible visual tension in his work.

  Philip Taaffe

  Strong, Unnecessary, Incredibles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm not so interested in this series of ruptures, where minimalism took over pop art, and then neo-expressionism was a triumph over that. I'm not interested in rupture - I'm interested in healing, bringing things together, building bridges. Not dismissing what has come before as a kind of modernist precedent, where one thing has to be broken in order to achieve something else. I don't believe in that kind of attitude. I think we're beyond that at this stage.

  Philip Taaffe

  Art, Attitude, Believe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Daughter, Heart, Italian

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• What does it mean when you hook up your work to that of a late modernist giant working in a reductive vein - Ad Reinhardt, Agnes Martin, Robert Ryman, Ellsworth Kelly, Frank Stella, or Donald Judd, for example - like a caboose? I am not talking about engaging directly with another artist's work or ideas, but of perpetuating a look or, in the case of Wade Guyton, the various monochromatic, striped and geometric surfaces we associate with Minimalism.

  John Yau

  Mean, Artist, Talking

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• Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

  Hosea Ballou

  Happiness, Happy, Real

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)", Book by Kate Louise Roberts, 2010.

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• 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

  Home, Vegetables, Want

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• Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Life, Simple, Greed

  Edwin Way Teale (1953). “Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist's Year”

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• Eyes blinded by the fog of things cannot see truth. Ears deafened by the din of things cannot hear truth. Brains bewildered by the whirl of things cannot think truth. Hearts deadened by the weight of things cannot feel truth. Throats choked by the dust of things cannot speak truth.

  Harold Bell Wright

  Heart, Eye, Thinking

  Harold Bell Wright (1910). “The uncrowned king”

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• But I deal with this by meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Humanity, Understanding, Battle

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• If one's life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself from the elements.

  Dalai Lama

  Simple, Simplicity, Feelings

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• Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Courage

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