Quotes About Minimalism

I don't like hype cluttering art.

It's a new art form, showing people how little we care.

The real art is knowing what to leave out, not what to put in.

Never put more than two waves in a picture; it's fussy.

The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal.

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.

Robert Creely's poems have two main characteristics. 1) They are short; 2) they are not short enough.

All art does but consist in the removal of surplusage.

So much of the art of film is to do less. To aspire to do less.

Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it.

I have always been a nomad and I have mastered the art of packing! I always say: pack lightly, live lightly.

I realize that I live in the same environment that I did when I was a kid, but with less junk and better art.

Minimalism itself had a very strong iconoclast impulse. You think of the sixties as loose and liberated, but in art it was actually quite the contrary.

People tend to view land art as something that happened at a certain historical moment - like minimal art, which I was also very much involved with. But it still goes on. It's very much alive.

For in a dearth of comforts, we art taught To be contented with the least.

Anything that is not necessary to the painting damages it." Henri Matisse

Having small touches of colour makes it more colourful than having the whole thing in colour

If you know the art of being happy with simple things, then you know the art of having maximum happiness with minimum effort!

Make art and live simply.

An attitude of only taking what you need was built into the protocols of the Internet itself.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.

The people who are rebelling meaningfully don't buy a lot of stuff.

in winter's watered-down light—just

The air-conditioning was more like a vague gesture toward the abstract idea of air-conditioning.