Quotes About Minimalism

If we could all come to see our consumer products as tools that help us to live our real lives—rather than as substitutes and surrogates for that life—we would need many fewer products to be happy.

You climb the mountains or visit the wilderness but leave no trace of having been there.

Or as Dieter Rams, head of design at Braun, maintains, "Good design is as little design as possible.

We don't need an abundance of things.

In my daily activities, I tend to go for light and simple clothes that are easy to work with.

I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.

Almost everything looks the same at art fairs - very hygienic, very white, lots of right angles.

It's amazing to me how often the answer to making something sound better is to play something less.

I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore.

My apartment looks like no one lives in it.

I live in a little studio apartment, so I try to keep the space super clean at all times.

I don't like applying too much makeup.

Simplicity and charm.

Lo que primero llamaba la atención era la ausencia total de muebles, lo cual era posible gracias a la utilización sistemática de pequeñas diferencias de nivel a la altura del suelo. De este modo, las zonas destinadas a dormitorios eran excavaciones rectangulares de cuarenta centímetros de profundidad: uno bajaba a la cama en vez de subirte a ella. Las bañeras eran igualmente grandes pilas redondas cuyo reborde estaba situado a ras de suelo.

If a man makes the world his castle, he does not seek to furnish it.

Three years ago, we sold, donated, or discarded over 70% of our family's possessions. We removed clothes, furniture, decorations, cookware, tools, books, toys, plus anything else we could find in our home that was not immediately useful or beautiful. The result has been a completely transformed life and lifestyle. It is a decision we have never regretted.

I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made.

no walls no roof no anything my house doesn't get wet doesn't get blown down

Keep it simple in the kitchen. If you use quality ingredients, you don't need anything fancy to make food delicious: just a knife, a cutting board, and some good nonstick cookware, and you're set.

Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.

I like simple clothes, but sometimes I'll go for a goth-witch vibe.

I live my life very Amish-like. Other than video games, I don't think I have a reason for electronics. It's a life that I've always loved.

I'm easy to please. I just need a bed and video games, and I'm set.

I want to change things with everything I do, not for the sake of changing things, but for the sake of taking greater and greater risks, or how minimalist I might be able to be, or how I can involve elements or ingredients in music videos that are not musical, for instance.