Minimalism is not a style, it is an attitude, a way of being. It's a fundamental reaction against noise, visual noise, disorder, vulgarity. Minimalism is the pursuit of the essence of things, not the appearance.

— Claudio Silvestrin

Andy Warhol is the only genius I’ve ever known with an IQ of 60.

— Gore Vidal

Form is the possibility of structure.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Christoph Engel | Haus Esters | 2003

There is no way to perform architecture in a book. Words and drawings can only produce paper space, not the experience of real space. By definition, paper space is imaginary; it is an image.

— Bernard Tschumi

Walter Gropius | Haus Stichweh | 1953

Architects don't invent anything; they just transform reality.

— Álvaro Siza Vieira

Isa Genzken | Fenster | 1990

Art is an idea that has found its perfect form.

— Paul Rand

Barnett Newman | Untitled Etching #1 | 1969

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

— Robert Motherwell

Bas Jan Ader, 1975

The subject of the work is your experience, your walking.

— Richard Serra

Harald Szeemann, 2001

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I have a confidence in my understanding of formal aesthetics and I don’t want to be aware of it or make that my problem.

— Eva Hesse

There is never any question of what to paint, but how to paint.

— Robert Ryman

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | Neue Nationalgalerie | 1968

Simplicity of form is not necessarily simplicity of experience.

— Robert Morris

Bernd and Hilla Becher | Transformator Bous | 1970

Don’t confuse minimal with simple.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | Haus Lemke | 1933

I believe that all painters are realists for themselves. They are abstract for other people.

— Zao Wou Ki