Quotes About Minimalism

I remember thinking, "Well, but I wouldn't have to be that funny anyway. I would just have to be funny enough to buy a loaf of Wonder bread and a jar of Skippy peanut butter a week." I could easily survive on that.

When you own nothing, it's easy to let things go.

When you own nothing, it's easy to let things go.

when you build only software that you absolutely need, you don't get more software than you'll actually use.

The camera slung around his neck...was the only complicated thing he wore.

It became an exercise to reduce and reduce, but it makes it easier to build an easier for people to work with.

The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can.

I've taken away everything I could think of, and yet what remains is enough. These days many more people come to my work, and once they see my work they will always recognize it.

Agnes Martin is a big influence in my work actually, when I first saw her, these fine grids.

And after a while, you just pare things down more and more and more, until you get to certain basic things which just - basic ideas which just seem to work for you over and over again.

I think every collection is always a move forward. It's the same work - the process is always the same. The interesting thing is to try to achieve a certain nothingness.

I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

When I was a student in the '60s, I dreamt of making a house 7 feet by 7 feet, as a dream of freedom, of self-moderation.

I don't dispute the fact that I ordered too many mason jars. 1,200 Mason jars in a studio apartment is not the hill that I will die on.

I lived in a studio apartment until my mid-30s. I don't have an extravagant lifestyle.

I look for a sense of reality with everything I did. I didn't work in a studio, I didn't light anything. I found a way of working which pleased me because I didn't have to frighten people with heavy equipment. It was that little black box and me and £5 worth of film in my pocket or maybe it was only £2 in those days.

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.

A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can't stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can't live that way. My home has to be filled with stuff - mostly paintings, sculpture, my fish lamps, cardboard furniture, lots of books.

The more storage you have, the more stuff you accumulate.

I don't live for stuff and things, and if I had to live in a cardboard box, I would put curtains on it.

I'm not really into makeup, not really into fuffing with hair and stuff.

There has to be the right pacing of images to tell the story. I'm always stunned at how little you can put in.

The essence of style is a simple way of saying something complex.