Minimalism Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Minimalism Quotes from famous persons: Madison Smartt Bell, Vivienne Westwood, Aparna Sen, Francis Ford Coppola, Maya Beiser. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Minimalism Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

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

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

My personal fave is ‘The Japanese Wife‘, because I think I achieved a lot of what I wanted to do. I wanted that Japanese minimalism in the film, which I managed to get somewhat.

Aparna Sen

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

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

My design preference tends towards warmth, comfort, and minimalism.

Gauri Khan

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

If you ask me what minimalism is really about, I would say that it’s the altering of values – enter the small doors of minimalism and come out on the other side with big ideas.

Fumio Sasaki

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

Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don’t any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.

Chuck Palahniuk

I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.

La Monte Young

The idea of the museum is to show my work since the start, and I wanted to show all of it, not just to choose between different pieces. They are grouped together in themes – minimalism, androgyny, black and white, graphic, flowers, and so on – from the earliest designs to the most recent ones.

Giorgio Armani

Minimalism had to be born, not out of a mere spur-of-the-moment idea or yearning for a new lifestyle, but from an earnest desire and fervent need to rethink our lives.

Fumio Sasaki

I think ‘Tron’ is a good example of minimalism.

Thomas Bangalter

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

Modern minimalism has become less strict over time with a wider range of textures and materials, with other cozier layers.

Bobby Berk

In many museums, you see one of this and one of that. You gain an understanding of what Abstract Expressionism or Minimalism is, but you aren’t given the chance to appreciate the mind of an artist.

Robert J. Fisher

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

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.

Dave Grohl

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

Minimalism wasn’t a real idea – it ended before it started.

Sol LeWitt

As for minimalism, I don’t care, don’t care, don’t care to repeat myself, repeat myself.

Itzhak Perlman

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

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

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

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