Quotes About Minimalism

Outside of white button-down oord cloth shirts, Trickers brogues, 501s, and Ray-Ban Aviators, the single item of clothing that I have had in my closet consistently since 1982 is a pair of black-and-white checked Vans. They are the lazy man's shoe - perfect for dog walking and security lines at the airport.

I own two or three pairs of jeans and a bunch of T-shirts.

I've got about eight pairs of shoes, and that's it.

I'm a minimalist kind of person: only one pair of boots, one pair of pants, and if I could, only one shirt.

I hate that not everything ever written is on iBooks. Man, I hate paper.

Put all the menus and TV guides and magazines and local info papers in the drawers. I hate clutter!

You have to look like you're going somewhere and if you can you don't ever want to look like you're carrying everything you own. You want to travel light like you have a home and that's where you keep your things.

Simplicity The primary issue here is to remove distractions and remain free from attachments.

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If the stuff you own is not helping you create the life you want, then let it go.

Not sure what you use and what you don't? Here is a tried and true way to find out. Empty the contents of your kitchen utensil drawers into a cardboard box. For one month, only put a utensil back into the drawer if you take it out of the box to use it. At the end of the month seriously consider discarding everything that's still in the cardboard box. Face it: If it's still in the box after four weeks, you don't need it!

Flat spaces are the first battlefield you lose in the war with your stuff.

Now's the time to get rid of your first batch of malignant clutter. If you simply must have a reminder that this stuff was part of your life, take a picture of it, then tuck away the physical photo in a desk or stick the digital version deep into the belly of your computer. It's time to give this clutter to the world outside your home.

Experience was something it was difficult to avoid, though many people had managed to keep it to a minimum.

Occam's Razor' (so-called because the principle encourages one to cut out unnecessary complications from theory) is ultimately aesthetic: why postulate two things when one will do? Or as Occam is said to have put it, 'It is vain to do with more what can be done with fewer'.

Simple doesn't have to mean easy.

It is easy to be inspired by history when you're living in a part of it and allow that to seep into your writing: having said that, a minimalist room with no distractions is often better; the most exciting visions should already be in your head.

I preferred the simplest vocabulary.

I learned a lot from working with and watching Knxwledge, seeing how he produces non-stop. He doesn't dwell too long on stuff. He's very simple, using only about two or three elements. I like that in production. Sometimes it doesn't take more than three drums, a melody, the vocal, looping a sample or whatever, just as minimal as possible.

I definitely don't subscribe to the theory that more instruments, or more vocal tracks, harmony, or double tracking the voice, is a good thing. People do their early albums very stripped down, then each album becomes bloated.

I just like simplicity. I like simple songs, I like simple chords, simple vocals, simple lead guitar. I just like simplicity. That's just the way I like it.

We think we can't become a minimalist until our lives have settled down. But it's actually the other way around; we won't be able to settle down until we're living a minimalist life.

I ain't got nothing. I've got this watch, and these shoes, and that's about it.

I don't like shoes. I get a lot of splinters, though.