Minimalism
Minimalism is an intellectual or artistic movement that has shaped the ideas of many notable thinkers throughout history.
5 thinkers133 quotesTop field: Art
"I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you. Anyway, the real point is that the things that don't seem to me to be pictorially informed are not so interesting to me."
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🇺🇸Donald Judd
Art
Minimalism
1928–1994
"Society is basically not interested in art. Art has a purpose of its own."
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🇺🇸Frank Stella
Art
Minimalism
1936–2024
"The idea in being a painter is to declare an identity. Not just my identity, an identity for me, but an identity big enough for everyone to share in. Isn't that what it's all about?!"
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🇺🇸Carl Andre
Art
Minimalism
1935–2024
"Whole poems are made out of many single poems we call words.. .I am trying to recover a part of the poet's work which has been lost. Our first poets were the namers, not the rhymers."
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🇺🇸Sol LeWitt
Art
Minimalism
1928–2007
"Sol LeWitt's obituary in the New York Times"
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🇺🇸Richard Serra
Art
Minimalism
1938–2024
"I think if you want to make art, at some point you have to suspend judgment, and you have to involve yourself with play and not worry about the outcome."
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Notable Quotes
"I don't know how I got into sculpture. I liked its physicality, that's the only reason. I didn't have a program."
— Frank Stella, b. 1936View →
"The idea in being a painter is to declare an identity. Not just my identity, an identity for me, but an identity big enough for everyone to share in. Isn't that what it's all about?!"
— Frank Stella, b. 1936View →
"The thing that struck me most was the way he stuck to the motif .. ..the idea of stripes – the rhythm and the interval – the idea of repetition. I began to think a lot about repetition."
— Frank Stella, b. 1936View →
"Society is basically not interested in art. Art has a purpose of its own."
— Donald Judd, b. 1928View →
"I wanted something that was direct – right to you eye .. ..something you didn't have to look around – you got the whole thing right away."
— Frank Stella, b. 1936View →