Quotes About Minimalism

As you get older, your tastes get simpler. I like a sleek evening dress with a pair of big earrings. That's all.

Buy the best you can find or afford and don't over manipulate it. If I cook a scallop, the best praise you can give me is that it tastes like a scallop.

Everyone deserves to have some caged clutter, to tuck away a few items somewhere, but this is not the same as cramming stuff to the ceiling in the garage,

To have a regular system of giving away some of your stuff forces you to "take inventory" once in a while.

The more possessions you have, the more you have to make room for, take care of, protect, sometimes insure, and sometimes worry about losing them to theft, fire, or other catastrophes. Yet when you start to get rid of your unneeded possessions, you can rejoice in a newfound freedom, for you are no longer "owned" by all your possessions.

What you buy doesn't make you cool, it makes you the opposite. Stop buying stuff just to have more stuff. Most of us have enough of everything already. Let's care for what we've got, instead, and dispose of our disposable society.

Niko was a man of few words and flying, sugary snacks. I like that in a human. ~Catcher

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. —Leonardo da Vinci

I was living in the cheapest of all paper houses, living as the Japanese themselves do, on a handful of rice, and learning by experience how very little it requires to keep body and soul together.

If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer.

Everything we possess that is not necessary for life or happiness becomes a burden, and scarcely a day passes that we do not add to it.

Build your film on white, on silence and on stillness.

Bâtis ton film sur du blanc, sur le silence et l'immobilité.

Robert Bresson

Building a project should be a single trivial operation.

THE COMMON REUSE PRINCIPLE Don't force users of a component to depend on things they don't need.

Whether you are designing systems or individual modules, never forget to use the simplest thing that can possibly work.

A nothing that said everything.

It was a plain table, and unadorned like all of her furnishings, some of which she suspected might be of indifferent workmanship. A trivial matter; so long as furniture did what it was supposed to do, nothing more mattered

uninflected silence

the KISS principle—Keep It Simple, Stupid (or Keep It Super Simple)

Garbage is usually construed as useless complexity.

It's not so much