Quotes About Minimalism

I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.

I don't really shop any more. I only do it when I have to. I think it is very overrated.

Soms is minder gewoonweg wat het is. Minder. En laat net mij gespogen en gescheten zijn, en onherstelbaar voorbestemd, en onherroepelijk verminkt, door een cultuur van 'Mag het iets meer zijn, madam'. En zelfs los daarvan, in alle eerlijkheid: 'minder' is een leugen. 'Minder' is een laffe constructie, gemakzuchtig bedrog, minimalistische kitsch.

No camera, no recording device, no laptop, none of this palm pilot nonsense or a cell phone. Paper and pencil, a book, maybe a bilingual dictionary. Anything beyond that (a) can be stolen, and (b) intimidates people you encounter. The more double-A batteries you carry, the more you distance yourself from the people you're writing about.

It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence.

Simple is best. Don't you think? [ I think - Why? Because of cluttered up things you might be running into? ] ...That eventually you'll be getting rid of eventually, hahaha. Start simple.

Simple is best. Don't you think? [ I think - Why? Because of cluttered up things you might be running into? ] ...That eventually you'll be getting rid of anyway, hahaha. Start simple.

Det blir mest lite väder och vind som man har att skriva om. (…) Det kan hända att man blir tyst av att bo länge pa tumanhand, i varje fall på en ö. Det man säger har mest bara att göra med vardagens gång och om vardagen går som den brukar säger man ännu mindre.

When you're forced to be simple, you're forced to face the real problem. When you can't deliver ornament, you have to deliver substance

Have less; do less; say no.

It's the simple things in life that are the most extaordinary;

You just can't fly when you're wearing socks, and shoes, and coats, and pants, and underwear. Everything has to go.

Bryl-cream, a little dab will do you.

A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence.

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

Originally, I didn't want to say too much about the art.

Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.

Backpacking is the art of knowing what not to take.

The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.

The art of drawing is the art of omission.

Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, the beautiful in art.

One learns first of all in beach living the art of shedding; how little one can get along with, not how much.

The art of art... is simplicity.