Minimalist Quotes - Page 2

• One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

  Bob Marley

  Funny, Music, Wisdom

  Song: Trenchtown Rock

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• I'm a minimalist. I don't really need much to enjoy a good holiday - just my family and the bare essentials.

  Jean Reno

  Holiday, Essentials, Needs

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• I love a strong brow and ChapStick with glowing skin and messy hair. I'm a minimalist at heart.

  Ariana Madix

  Strong, Heart, Hair

  Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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• All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.

  Victor Hugo

  Animal, Men, Sometimes

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• The intention of this way of life [voluntary simplicity] is not to dogmatically live with less. It's a more demanding intention of living with balance. This is a middle way that moves between the extremes of poverty and indulgence.

  Duane Elgin

  Inspiring, Moving, Simplicity

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• Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.

  Jacques Barzun

  Past, Judging, Style

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• It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.

  David Foster

  Writing, Looks, Pieces

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• I'm a minimalist. I see things in simple ways...It's human nature to define complexity as better. Well, it's not.

  Gordon Willis

  Simple, Way, Human Nature

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• I'm a minimalist in a rapper's body.

  Kanye West

  Rapper, Body

  "Behind Kanye’s Mask". Interview with Jon Caramanica, www.nytimes.com. June 11, 2013.

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• If one had taken what is necessary to cover one's needs and had left the rest to those who are in need, no one would be rich, no one would be poor, no one would be in need.

  Saint Basil

  Taken, Would Be, Needs

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• Great acts are made up of small deeds.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Procrastination, Bad Day

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Drinking, Beer

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• What makes Steve [Jobs'] methodology different from everyone else's is that he always believed the most important decisions you make are not the things you do, but the things you decide not to do. He's a minimalist.

  John Sculley

  Jobs, Decisions You Make, Important

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• Glamour is back, but with a minimalist touch.

  Gianni Versace

  Glamour

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• Black and white is a very minimalist art form and unlike color photographs does not pretend to mimic the world in a manner similar to the way the human eye might perceive...
  
  Black and white is essentially an abstract way to interpret and transform what one might refer to as reality.

  Roger Ballen

  Art, Eye, Black And White

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• Beautiful and minimalist, the traditional Japanese art of ikebana - arranging bouquets of cut flowers and leaves using very few elements - ideally corresponded to a form of expression I could transpose in a perfume. The smell of a rose early in the morning, damp, sprinkled with dew, delicate and light.

  Jean-Claude Ellena

  Beautiful, Art, Morning

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• Kingsley Amis was a lenient father. His paternal style, in the early years, can best be described as amiably minimalist - in other words, my mother did it all.

  Martin Amis

  Mother, Father, Years

  Martin Amis (2017). “The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1986-2016”, p.116, Random House

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• My wife and I battle over home decor. My style goes from Gothic to Baroque. Hers is minimalist.

  Joe Bastianich

  Home, Wife, Style

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• I really do think of them as post-minimalist sculptures, inspired in large part by some very early spacecraft that NASA built.

  Trevor Paglen

  Thinking, Sculpture, Inspired

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• This one Corbusier lamp was like, my greatest inspiration ... I'm a minimalist in a rapper's body.

  Kanye West

  Inspiration, Rapper, Lamps

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• I'm a minimalist at heart. If a song doesn't need a solo, I'm not going to force one into it.

  The Edge

  Song, Heart, Needs

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• In general I don't like definitions, but 'Minimalist' is a term that means elegance and openness, so I would prefer to be called a Minimalist than something else.

  Ludovico Einaudi

  Mean, Definitions, Elegance

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• I never feel that my music is sparse or minimalist; the way fat people never really think they're fat. I certainly don't consider myself minimalist at all

  Morton Feldman

  Thinking, People, Way

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• I'm quite a physical person and I gesticulate a lot, which can be a problem when you're in Hollywood and they do everything in a minimalist way.

  Gemma Arterton

  Hollywood, Way, Problem

  "The Disappearance of Alice Creed - Gemma Arterton interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Gertrude Stein, all courage and will, is a soldier of minimalism. Her work, unlike the resonating silences in the art of Samuel Beckett, embodies in its loquacity and verbosity the curious paradox of the minimalist form. This art of the nuance in repetition and placement she shares with the orchestral compositions of Philip Glass.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Art, Glasses, Silence

  Elizabeth Hardwick (1998). “Sight-readings: American Fictions”, Random House Incorporated

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