Quotes About Minimalism

My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place.

I like simple food, seasoned with just salt, pepper, oil and vinegar. Complicated food and complicated lives are never good.

I still get excited by the same clothes I did when I first started going to vintage shops. But I think as I get older, I realize how much nicer it is to have 10 great outfits rather than 1000 tops and dresses that are all in a pile I cry in every time I get ready to go out.

At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.

When I discovered minimal music I felt I could create my vision - it was totally different to traditional music.

Sometimes little is better than nothing at all.

Fewer candles flickered. Fewer words were spoken. Fewer breaths were taken.

One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.

If less was more, she had a great deal.

They spoke in semaphore, all punctuation unnecessary. "You?" "Great." They'd trimmed the language to its essentials. Before long it would just be consonants. Then silence.

My favorite quote from Thoreau is also from Walden," said Gamache. "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.

the fact that two whole jars of bay leaves is really like a lifetime's supply, the fact that I wonder if every household has too many bay leaves, the fact that the number of bay leaves you own can easily get out of hand,

the fact that I really need a professional declutterer, or at least a book on decluttering from the library, unless they've decluttered the library too and have no books anymore

It is becoming more and more apparent that in every way we are "governed best where we are governed least.

Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

When there are multiple solutions to a problem, choose the simplest one.

Being simple is hard work.

to put it as philosopher-poet Ralph Waldo Emerson did, "To be simple is to be great.

Less is not necessarily more. Just enough is more. –Milton Glaser

Don't create complicated solutions to fix complicated problems. Simplicity is the only thing that can make our lives less complicated.

Let go of the things that don't matter anymore, you don't need the extra weight holding you down.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

White space is to be regarded as an active element, not a passive background.