Quotes About Minimalism

My greed goes no further than having something to drink, clothing on my back and shelter for the night.

My knitting is simple", he said again. Ï can make anything you want with it, but it will always be simple.

I spend my weekends with my Android phone in an elastic band that has tied to my Android phone my driver's license and my credit card. That's how I live. I'm not carrying a wallet anymore. Like, a wallet is a medieval item, right?

Guys will take one pair of jeans, five T-shirts and three pair of socks and that'll get you by for 10 weeks.

To be weighed down by things - books, furniture - seems somehow terrible to me.

People think a watch must weigh a lot to be a luxury. But there's no reason why we should add weight to create value. People have to overcome these notions.

This neo-minimalism super cold stuff is weird to me. I need a place where I can come home and take my shoes off.

Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody's buying far too many clothes.

Tramping is too easy with all this money. My days were more exciting when I was penniless and had to forage around for my next meal... I've decided that I'm going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty of it is just too good to pass up.

Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.

So, essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.

In a Western, you don't over-explain.

I'm trying to practice owning less stuff.

I prefer being minimalistic with my look.

I don't like directing a lot of people. So trying to keep things really simple and elegant is my preferred way of working.

Whether we live alone or with other people, few acknowledge the presence of another roommate. This roommate is named 'Things' and the space that 'Things' occupies is typically a lot larger than the space people have for themselves.

Calvin Coolidge was one of the best presidents. Why? Because he did absolutely nothing.

I like my face sans make-up - a dash of lipstick and a little mascara.

In my day-to-day, I might speak, like, 10 sentences.

I deleted all the apps. You can actually turn off the App Store. And I gave the passcode to my wife so I didn't have the passcode to reinstall the App Store. And I deleted all social media apps and e-commerce apps.

It would be better for everyone if we deleted everything by default and saved the things that are important to us.

My design is no design.

I don't have much of a bucket list. I don't have a lot of needs and desires.

It's not what you play but what you leave out that makes the difference.