I've always been attracted to Hemingway's writing, which is probably passé and cliché, but still true. It's his sentences I think. Short and filled with brute force.
Ernest had this to say of writing: A few things I have found to be true. If you leave out important
things or events that you know about, the story is strengthened. If you
leave or skip something because you do not know it, the story will be
worthless. The test of any story is how very good the stuff that you,
not your editors, omit.
Minimalism makes room for the viewer and for the audience. It turns him into the artist.
I don't know though. To echo Ximena, minimal is by no means simple.