Quotes About Minimalism

My point of view is that if I love a certain kind of beauty, I want more of that beauty. I don't need 200 different beauties.

The best things in life are simple. Simple things work. They don't foul up. It's the complicated things that get twisted around on you.

I gave up everything that didn't spark joy. Obsessive list-making. Kale. My high-stress job. My ex . . ." Harper was sure there was more, and if she hadn't given up list-making, she'd probably have it written down.

He who is most content with the least has the most," and "I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

No point carrying useless ballast. It won't change a thing.

I started out with nothing & still have most of it left.

He whose needs are the least will always be the nearest to God.

But now I feel off the grid. I feel that I am not part of the culture. And because I don't have a car I don't really go anywhere to buy things. In fact, I have been in a slow process of selling and giving away everything I own.

How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.

Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.

My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.

Let's reuse whatever we have now, stop making more of it, take what we gather, and make - whether it's car parts, computer cases, anything that we can use.

I dont watch TV. I dont use a computer, a fax or a cellphone.

You can't be minimalist as a director until you have acquired the experience and confidence to say no.

Sometimes it's not how much light you use to get an effect, it's how little you use and still make it work. There are a lot of rules to be broken in photography, and you've got to have courage.

If you don't stick to simplicity, you'll die a horrible death.

You're somebody who has banished all superfluous sentiments from his life. No asinine longings to be home again. No patience for the nonessential. Only time for what's indispensable.

Simplicity. Ah, that I can offer in abundance.

There is hardly more than the eyes, the open air, the grass and the water in the distance . . .

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity

The less I have, the less I can lose.

the single-story house

When Less is More, you often get More with Less. More passion with less planning. More love and intimacy with less information and grief. More freedom with less fretting. And, yes, while we're at it, more style with less stuff.