Quotes About Minimalism

Live simple, and simply live.

With their less-than-rudimentary musicianship, Beat Happening might have been making a conceptual point, but it was also the best they could manage.

The best way to reduce any environmental impact is not to recycle more, but to produce and dispose of less" The

Happy is the man whose wants are few. The fewer the wants, the happier the person. One

Because of what's going on with the economy, I think women are realizing that maybe they don't need a closet full of clothes. They just need the right clothes.

However little you think you need to do, there's less you need to do.

Lo que primero llamaba la atención era la ausencia total de muebles, lo cual era posible gracias a la utilización sistemática de pequeñas diferencias de nivel a la altura del suelo. De este modo, las zonas destinadas a dormitorios eran excavaciones rectangulares de cuarenta centímetros de profundidad: uno bajaba a la caba en vez de subirte a ella. Las bañeras eran igualmente grandes pilas redondas cuyo reborde estaba situado a ras de suelo.

It wasn't easy to cram your whole life into thirty kilos of luggage.

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

Clutter cleaning is about acquiring an ability to rely solely upon oneself to create an environment that is nurturing and supportive. It does not depend on someone else." (Acknowledgements)

Usually, you'll see, having more comes from starting with less.

Every word you add dilutes the sentence.

Keep it simple, keep it sexy, keep it sad.

Now that things are so simple, there's so much to do.

My thatched hut; the whole sky Is its roof The mountains are its hedge, And it has the sea for a garden. I'm inside with nothing at all, Not even a bag, And yet there are visitors who say " It's hidden behind a bamboo door" — Muso Soseki

Automation weakens the bond between tool and user not because computer-controlled systems are complex but because they ask so little of us.

Josef Albers devoted his life to extolling the merits of "minimal means for maximum effect.

What counted was focus, paring down: the form of the Parthenon as opposed to all the ornament and complexities of wedding-cake architecture.

Reeducating man will consist of teaching him once again to value objects correctly: that is, to need few.

I'm painting color squares. One square - one color. That's what I paint.

I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.

How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. . . . All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.

When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.

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