Quotes About Minimalism

Use the art of reduction in every aspect of life. The Tao is all about simplicity, so the Tao process is about subtraction rather than addition. Remove obstacles and complexity to unleash the power of your natural capabilities and to fully express your vast potential.

The Tao does not accumulate or increase complexity—it reduces, simplifies, and streamlines. It's not about learning more techniques—it's about discarding the harmful elements.

Just as an effective advertisement or page layout includes a lot of white space, a powerful scene requires immense restraint. Show things as simply as possible.

I love the dramatic idea of having nothing on.

I'm not a big shopper. I'm a pretty simple dresser, and that's not my pleasure go-to thing, looking for clothes.

That's the attitude I approach everything with: I don't want there to be a lot of dressing on anything.

A car just gets me from A to B. I really don't spend that much time driving.

Elegance is elimination.

I try to keep very simple ideas and keep them as emotionally powerful as possible.

I try to leave things as open ended as possible, not too overladen with meaning.

I'm enjoying simplifying things.

My entire life can fit into a knapsack.

We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.

We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.

Renouncing things is less difficult than people believe: it's all a matter of getting started. Once you've succeeded in dispensing with something you thought essential, you realize you can also do without something else, then without many other things.

The world is reduced to a sheet of paper on which nothing can be written except abstract words.

toothbrush and dental powder; a mattress and cover, two sheets, one pillow case. An instant after

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.

Microinteractions are an exercise in restraint, in doing as much as possible with as little as possible. Embrace the constraints and focus your attention on doing one thing well. Mies van der Rohe's mantra of "less is more" should be the microinteraction designer's mantra as well.

Mies van der Rohe's mantra of "less is more" should be the microinteraction designer's mantra as well.

Nature always tends to act in the simplest way.

More isn't better. Better is better.

What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer.

Every role is physical to a certain extent, but as a viewer, I don't respond well to actors doing more than they need to tell a story.