Quotes About Minimalism

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.

Spare functional furniture, in my opinion, is the genius of 20th-century design.

For me, generally speaking, I don't like to make a big deal out of stuff.

Sometimes simple accessories are all you need when your dress speaks for itself.

Not the spectacular things are the important things - the unspectacular things are the important things, especially in the future.

When you remove layers, simplicity and speed happen.

Spielberg shoots with one camera. The Coens, and I think this is right, maybe discarded one shot on 'No Country for Old Men.' That's something you want to aspire to, because nothing's out of place. Everything's necessary.

The delivery of medical care is to do as much nothing as possible.

I am a simple man and I use simple materials: Ivory Black, Vermilion, Prussian Blue, Yellow Ochre, Flake White and no medium. That's all I've ever used in my paintings.

Simplicity is the law of nature for men as well as for flowers.

so efficient it doesn't waste power by making noise

The goal of all persons who had houses in those days was to possess the smallest number of pieces of furniture needed to sustain life, but to make them as large and heavy and dark as possible. Accordingly, Daniel and Drake ate their potatoes and herring on a table that had the size and weight of a medieval drawbridge.

The British Empire was the nearest thing there has ever been to a world government. Yet its mode of operation was a triumph of minimalism.

Anni and Josef Albers's house was the whitest place imaginable.

At the Bauhaus, Josef Albers wrote a friend for whose apartment he was designing furniture, "An empty room is always the best.

To reduce apparent details was to increase emotional and physical ease.

Mount Carmel was a very monastic place. We lived in another time - an easier time, a better time. We didn't have running water or most modern conveniences. But in a lot of ways, it was a very satisfying life.

It's a briefcase with my laptop, my DSLR, a microphone, my mouse, and rechargeable batteries. I could set up right here and film an episode if I wanted to. And that's how I like to keep it, small and compact, so I can do it anywhere in the world.

I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.

I use very few muscles at the best of times.

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.

My soul desires a pre-industrial world, and since I can't have that, I don't really care for anything material.

I don't like to attach myself to material things.

Brand names aren't important to me at all.