#minimal

Minimalism wasn't a real idea - it ended before it started. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

#ended #idea #minimalism #real #real idea

I would love, more than anything, to do an out-and-out farce with huge physical energy. Just because you're from the minimalist school, it doesn't mean you can't go big. ↗

— Aidan Quinn

#because #big #energy #farce #go

Like Godfather, you look at a movie like that, or something that James Gray has directed, a film with minimal or pin lighting as opposed to everything being lit bright and flat, where everything is evident. ↗

— Bill Sienkiewicz

#bright #directed #everything #evident #film

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#authority #maximal #minimal #power #should

The more minimal art, the more maximum the explaination. ↗

— Hilton Kramer

#maximum #minimal #more

I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but its significance to human beings is ancient. ↗

— Mo Yan

#am #ancient #aware #beings #crises

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#arts #been #birth #dance #decline

Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#audiences #between #closest #contemporary #educated

We know that there are unaccounted-for Scud and other ballistic missiles in Iraq. And part of the problem is that, since 1998, there has been no way to even get minimal information about those programs except through intelligence means. ↗

— Condoleezza Rice

#ballistic #been #even #except #get

But that kind of falls in line; when you think about it, James Brown was a funk minimalist. All of those parts create a sum that's larger than than the individual parts. ↗

— Charlie Hunter

#brown #create #falls #funk #individual