Quotes About Minimalism

I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.

I never feel that my music is sparse or minimalist; the way fat people never really think they're fat. I certainly don't consider myself minimalist at all

I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind

Take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprints!

Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.

People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.

My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. There's not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.

Nature loves simplicity and unity.

I'm a minimalist. I see things in simple ways...It's human nature to define complexity as better. Well, it's not.

Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires.

If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for we observe that nature does not employ two instruments [if] one suffices.

Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer.

The artist Nature often achieves greatest effect when not working with a full palette.

Nature is economical. She puts her lights and darks only where she needs them.

Simplicity is all but nothing that's there.

It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.

Simplicity is the pursuit of the essential.

You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.

Realize How Little you Need in Order to be Satisfied and at Peace.

The fewer desires, the more peace.

I believe that one of the great pleasures that we derive from voyaging is that of independence, and we have found that the best guarantee of that independence comes from simplicity.

Less is more. Simplicity is awesome. That's all you need in life. Its just my personal philosophy.

The basically simple things are best, whether it's automobiles or diets or philosophy.

Simplify, simplify, simplify.