#minimalism

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

— Sol LeWitt

#ended #idea #minimalism #real #real idea

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

Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it. ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

#before #came #into #minimalism #moved

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

— Francine Jay

#minimalism #productivity #inspirational

Edit your life frequently and ruthlessly. It's your masterpiece after all. ↗

— Nathan W. Morris

#minimalism #motivation #self-motivation #success #inspirational

Minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of anything that distracts us from it. ↗

— Joshua Becker

#possessions #simplicity #home

So through a world of piety I made my way to Sebastian. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#irony #lovers #minimalism #homosexuality

Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#common #happy #little #lumped #minimalism

There was a big drive when I was at art school to make you aware of the economy of meaning - after all, this was still during the tail end of minimalism. Being responsible for everything you put in your picture, and being able to defend it. Keeping everything clear around you so you know what is operating. To open the wound and keep it clean. ↗

— Jane Campion

#after #around #art #art school #aware