#minimalism

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

I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make - and of course, I do influence them, but they keep simplifying, and minimalism doesn't quite work. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#clothes #course #i #i do #i think

Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#hemingway #minimalism #prose #writing #age

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

I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means. ↗

— La Monte Young

#definition #i #means #minimalism #minimum

The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work. ↗

— Ray Kurzweil

#minimalism #age