Minimalist Quotations

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Rome is a city where in every corner you have a reminder of the sacred world. That's why I have sacred music, minimalist sacred music, which is also music I like, because at the end of the day, that's what I want to do.

I have personal issues with clutter. I, personally, am very minimalist and like a clean slate. I like to throw everything away.

I've been accused of being a minimalist writer. I don't like a lot of verbiage in there.

I want to get lean and mean, keep it minimalist.

As far as accessories are concerned, I think it is always best to be as minimalist as possible.

When in doubt, I always, always buy clear vases. You really can't go wrong with minimalist clear vases, especially when you're sending someone flowers. The flowers are the star of the show and need to shine!

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.

I am a minimalist. I like saying the most with the least.

We didn't want a hybrid of the old stuff. The old records were very dense musically. Now there's a trend towards minimalist sound. That's the main thing.

We have a responsibility to give people opportunities to do what they can do. It's a fundamental tenet of democratic society. Libertarians who believe in a completely minimalist state, and don't feel we have that responsibility, are harming humanity.

I'm a minimalist Jew, but on Friday night, I celebrate Shabbat. At sundown, we light candles, say the blessing, and I don't turn on my computer for 24 hours.

La monte's idea was just to have this one big form that were just long tones, I think that was the real essential heart of minimalist music.

I think Calvin [Klein] is a minimalist.

We are excited to introduce Nokia's smallest ever Bluetooth Headset BH-800 to the market. I'm confident that the stylish minimalist design coupled with the tiny size of the product will attract completely new consumer segments globally.

You can't be minimalist as a director until you have acquired the experience and confidence to say no.

'Dirtbag' is just the term we use, like a 'gnarly dude' in surfing. Within the climbing culture, it means being a committed lifer: someone who has embraced a minimalist ethic in order to rock climb. It basically means you're a homeless person by choice.

As for futuristic costumes, I loved doing 'Gattaca' because I'm a minimalist at heart, and it's a very minimal film. Plus, with Uma Thurman, Ethan Hawke and Jude Law, how could you go wrong?

It was a minimalist opening offer, ... It was far from what anyone in our group would expect to be adequate.

In terms of trading flows, we're looking for that same level of automation and minimalist environment in terms of manual intervention,

But how could you live and have no story to tell?

Glamour is back, but with a minimalist touch.

I'm not a minimalist, as I'm sure you've noticed.

All the regional bell companies have a half-baked minimalist view of just what an open market is, ... It would be easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for real competition to enter one of their so-called open markets.

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

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.

It has escaped no one's attention that celebrating Minimalism in the context of a symphony orchestra is admittedly a problematic fit. Most of the best Minimalist music is not scored for conventional orchestra. But the Los Angeles Philharmonic, being an orchestra that is not only a hundred-piece ensemble but also an amalgam of distinct, highly talented performers, found many ways to make a successful survey of this magnitude.