Quotes About Minimalism

Simplicity, to me, has always been the essence of good taste.

Good design means as little design as possible.

Bold simplicity is the keynote to good design.

The ambition of every good cook must be to make something very good with the fewest possible ingredients.

Good design emphasises the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.

We should work for simple, good, undecorated things, but things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street.

I don't enjoy good food. I don't enjoy flashy cars. I don't care if I live in a dump. I don't enjoy good clothes. This is the best I've dressed in months.

I'm a very good packer, but I probably take too much in the way of toiletries. You only really need a toothbrush, as most places you go to have a bar of soap and some shampoo.

I'm an advocate for buying few, but very good quality pieces of clothing, and if you do that you need to take care of them.

It is certain, I think, that the best government is the one that governs the least. But there is a much-neglected corollary: the best citizen is the one who least needs governing.

That government is best which governs least.

Government is best which governs least

I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically.

The less government we have the better.

Government governed least is government governed best.

Those are governed best who are governed least.

That government is best which governs the least because its people discipline themselves.

There is great freedom in simplicity of living.

How simple and frugal a thing is happiness.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

Happiness is really rooted in simplicity. The tendency to excessiveness in thought and action diminishes happiness.

True happiness is born of letting go of what is unnecessary.

I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.

It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.