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  • The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

    "Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book that Changes Lives". Book by Dan Millman, p. 162, 2006.
  • 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.

    Mother   Father   Years  
    Martin Amis (2017). “The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1986-2016”, p.116, Random House
  • Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

    Life   Business   Simple  
    Walden ch. 2 (1854)
  • I'm more eclectic.Maybe I'm minimalist in the respect that I love black...black for the winter, white for the summer, you know? But I love artisanal things.

    Summer   Winter   White  
    "Donna Karan on Meditation, Fashion - and Love". Interview with Mayu Saini, wwd.com. March 28, 2016.
  • I was lucky to be born during the time of minimalism. I think I can be colder because of this. In form I speak with minimalism but my feeling is sentimental - I am a sentimental minimalist.

    "To die is very strang". Interview with Caia Hagel, logger.believermag.com. March 12, 2014.
  • Most films and directors lose their nerve and want to indicate [emotions] a bit more, to show that their story is clear. I'm not saying that's a good thing; as an actor its anathema to good acting, but to have someone with the confidence to say that should I be utterly natural and minimalist is great.

    Acting   Want   Directors  
    "The Good Shepherd - Matt Damon interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.
  • When I say that there's commonality, I mean more in terms of the sort of techniques by which we perceive Baroque and minimalist music rather than the techniques used to compose them. I know that's being sort of overly complicated.

    "How To Annoy Your Dad: Play The Harpsichord". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.
  • I knew I could never be accepted as a straight-ahead jazz musician, nor would Iaccept myself as that. I would never be accepted as a minimalist. I wouldn't be adowntown composer. Because I find all orthodoxies, all doctrines to be ultimatelybanal.

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

  • Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

    "The Artist's Way at Work: Riding the Dragon". Book by Mark A. Bryan with Julia Cameron and Catherine A. Allen, p. 160, 1999.
  • 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.

    Past   Judging   Style  
  • I've been called a minimalist composer for more than 30 years, and while I've never really agreed with the description, I've gotten used to it.

    Years   Minimalist   Used  
  • Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

    Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.480, Princeton University Press
  • All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.

    Animal   Men   Sometimes  
  • 'The Beatles' did whatever they wanted. They were a collection of influences adapted to songs they wanted to write. George Harrison was instrumental in bringing in Indian music. Paul McCartney was a huge Little Richard fan. John Lennon was into minimalist aggressive rock.

    Song   Writing   Rocks  
  • I want to get lean and mean, keep it minimalist.

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

    Strong   Heart   Hair  
    Source: www.realstylenetwork.com
  • I'm a minimalist. I like things to look very clean, I like clean lines. I like everything to be tidy and have space.

    Space   Looks   Lines  
    Source: www.realstylenetwork.com
  • If I have ideas, I want to put them in the movie. It's not a minimalist approach at all but I feel like it's for the audience. It's about seeing how much texture we can give it and seeing how many things are there for people to latch on to... I just want to do it the way I want and I feel like it won't be helpful for me if I start worrying about that. I just have to follow my instincts. Everyone is going to respond differently to it and everybody's right - that's their point of view. That's how the story intersects with their lives.

    Ideas   Views   Worry  
    "The Darjeeling Limited - Wes Anderson interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.
  • I was pretty much a minimalist. I liked a lot of black at the time, which is very different from my wardrobe now, because I live in color.

    Color   Black   Different  
    Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
  • You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

    Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”
  • I've always been the king of silence. I've always been a minimalist comedian. I've taken my influence from Jack Benny, who was the king of that I've always done 'less is more.'

    Kings   Taken   Silence  
  • 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.

  • 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.

    School   Mean   Energy  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

    Funny   Drinking   Beer  
    Oscar Wilde (2012). “Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations”, p.26, Courier Corporation
  • I'll never be a minimalist. The fact that the prose is more tightly controlled doesn't for a minute mean that it's minimalist. I very much like arcane words and baroque sentence structure.

    Mean   Facts   Minimalist  
    Interview with Lou Anders, believermag.com. April 1, 2005.
  • I'm a minimalist. I don't really need much to enjoy a good holiday - just my family and the bare essentials.

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

    "Behind Kanye’s Mask". Interview with Jon Caramanica, www.nytimes.com. June 11, 2013.
  • Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

    Life   Happiness   Beauty  
    Hopes and Fears for Art "The Beauty of Life" (1882)
  • Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens.

    Peace Pilgrim (1981). “Steps Toward Inner Peace”, p.15, Friends of Peace PIlgrim
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