Quotes About Minimalism

It's the secret to happiness, you know. Only take what you need.

Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don't necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite.

If we learn to live with few wants, we shall forever be happy.

The spirit of my home is entirely bound up in a quality of space. I have only the objects I need and nothing more. Empty space in which to think and relax is both stimulating and calming.

I prefer to live in a rented house. No ties. Nothing around my neck. Just the minimum kind of bare comforts of home.

All I really want is a three-room house. The home I have designed at my new farm in Bedford, New York, is a three-room house: bedroom on top, living room in the middle, and kitchen on the ground.

The more materiality there is, the less humanity there is

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

It is so dam difficult to be simple.

The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

He is the richest who is content with the least.

The less I needed, the better I felt.

I like things simple.

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

He who must travel happily must travel light.

It is life near the bone where it is sweetest.

It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.

Our life is frittered away by detail...Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let our affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand...Simplify, simplify!

Clear clutter. Make space for you.

Simplicity is the key to beauty. Clarity is the key to perfection.

Minimalism can help you find contentment and satisfaction and finally put meaning into your life. Just removing unnecessary things that do not bring any value to you will essentially open the door to a brand new perspective on living.

There was a big drive when I was at art school to make you aware of the economy of meaning - after all, this was still during the tail end of minimalism. Being responsible for everything you put in your picture, and being able to defend it. Keeping everything clear around you so you know what is operating. To open the wound and keep it clean.