Quotes About Minimalism

So little gives me joy now that I'm afraid I'll get rid of every single thing I've ever owned and end up with nothing. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Feeling empty only makes me want to be emptier.

Keep it simple, keep it sexy, keep it sad.

It would seem that more than function itself, simplicity is the deciding factor in the aesthetic equation. One might call the process beauty through function and simplification.

Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.

Entities should not be posited unnecessarily.

Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run.

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

If a horse can't eat it, I don't want to play on it.

Simplicity is an intellectual achievement, one of the greatest.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

Monsieur de Villaine at Romanée-Conti, who believed that the winemaker was no more than an intermediary between the soil and the wine and that he should interfere as little as possible.

Romanée-Conti, who believed that the winemaker was no more than an intermediary between the soil and the wine and that he should interfere as little as possible.

It is well to be simple once in a while.

We don't need to increase our goods nearly as much as we need to scale down our wants. Not wanting something is as good as possessing it.

The important thing in life is not what you get, but what you throw out.

Focus and simplicity...once you get there, you can move mountains.

This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.

Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.

Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.

A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.

You spend the first part of your life collecting things ... and the second half getting rid of them.

There's a movement for simplifying your life: purchase less stuff, own a few things that are very high quality that last a long time, and that are multifunctional.

This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see the thin thread of necessities on which our human existence is suspended.