Quotes About Minimalism

Any work of architecture that does not express serenity is a mistake.

He says to us: They don't really do anything. Then he adds: But of course there is not a lot for them to do.

Jobs and his top engineers finally showed up for an afternoon visit in December 1979, the presentation was as minimal as Goldberg could make it.

I have very little," he said, and he spoke as if having little were the greatest fortune, and the greatest buffer against the future, that a man could wish.

In other parts of the world, they have double-bed sheets," wrote Wilbur Larch in A Brief History of St. Cloud's. "Here in St. Cloud's we do without—we just do without.

Clothes, whips, reading material," the customs officer had summarized, in Spanish and English, to the young American. "Just the bare essentials!" Edward Bonshaw

He had just one vowel and one consonant left.

The abstract has no emotional content... the abstract is more powerful the more abstract it is.

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.

Minimalism is not defined by what is not there but by the rightness of what is and the richness with which this is experienced.

Simple is hard. Easy is harder. Invisible is hardest.

A lot of what we are doing is getting design out of the way.

The less you carry the more you will see, the less you spend the more you will experience.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Happiness in all walks of life is often more about stopping than starting. More about subtracting than adding. More about letting go than holding on.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

The screen filled with a pure and simple blue in which a few black pixels floated.

I hate to travel with stuff.

Three or four drops of height have nothing to do with savageness.

Everything important that I have done can be put into a little suitcase.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated