Quotes About Minimalism

I tend to gravitate towards very simple, minimalistic styles.

Music that is considered minimalism - or post-minimalism music in general - things of that nature or that come from that tradition, or even drone, or non-western music, have a more subtle and more open-ended verticality to them that allows for your own mind and body to be involved.

Take only pictures, steal only time, leave only footprints.

Seek beauty in simplicity, not in complexity.

Take everything that's yours with you, don't save any -- it won't be needed later.

Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.

Living in a fairly remote village one soon learns to accept that having a roof, a fire, some warm clothes and enough to eat are really the only material essentials for a comfortable life.

You have succeeded in life when all you really WANT is only what you really NEED.

Waste lies not in the number of possessions but in the failure to enjoy them.

To be frugal means to have a high joy-to-stuff ratio. If you get one unit of joy for each material possession, that's frugal. But if you need ten possessions to even begin registering on the joy meter, you're missing the point of being alive.

We need better things, not more. We should not pollute the world with meaningless, unused things when we can make and support things of rare and precious beauty.

Unity and simplicity are the two true sources of beauty.

One comes to bless the absolute bareness, feeling that here is a pure beauty of form, a kind of ultimate harmony.

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

Food, like most things, is best when left to its own simple beauty.

Style is to see beauty in modesty.

In art economy is always beauty.

The hallmark of the artist is simplicity.

This new world was a vicious, sleek world made of street lights and tight jeans, sharp smiles and fast cars. This was a city, edited. A city, pared down to its bare minimums, beautiful and abusive.

Most works are most beautiful without ornament.

I'm very low-maintenance when it comes to my beauty routine.

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple which has no superfluous parts which exactly answers its ends.

The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.

The best way to be boring is to include everything.