#minimal

I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I've tried to keep the corruption minimal. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#development #i #into #keep #minimal

Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and that the big one was his mother. In that short little film, computer animation went from a novelty to a serious tool for filmmaking. ↗

— John Lasseter

#animation #baby #big #computer #could

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

— Sol LeWitt

#ended #idea #minimalism #real #real idea

My mom played the recorder. But not having electricity, we had minimal exposure to music. As I got a little older, we had Walkmans and things that were battery-powered, but it would have been nice to be growing up in the iPod era. A tape only has six songs on a side. ↗

— Bode Miller

#electricity #era #exposure #got #growing

Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#buddy holly #early #holly #i #lighter

After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration. ↗

— Harry Seidler

#after #architecture #cradle #daring #elaboration

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

You sell off the kingdom piece by piece and trade it for a horse that will take you anywhere. ↗

— Colin Wright

#travel #lifestyle

Of course one’s sense of identification with the nation is inflected by all kinds of particulars, including one’s class, race, gender, and sexual identification. … But [regarding] national character …, aside from references to a national aesthetic — literary, musical, and choreographic, there are two poles I reference: minimalist and maximalist. I love them both — the cryptic poems of Emily Dickinson folded up in tiny packets and hidden away in a box, the sparse, understated choreographies of Merce; but also the “trashy, profane and obscene” poems of Whitman and Ginsberg, [and] Martha Graham’s expressionism. I am, myself, a minimalist. But I love distortion guitar and the wild exhibitionism of so many American artists. Also, these divisions are false. Emily Dickinson, in fact, can be as trashy and obscene as the best of them! Anyway, Dickinson and Whitman are at the heart of this narrative. They are the Dancing Queen and the Guitar Hero. ↗

— Barbara Browning

#i-m-trying-to-reach-you #maximalism #minimalism #love

My goal is no longer to get more done, but rather to have less to do. ↗

— Francine Jay

#minimalism #productivity #inspirational