Quotes About Minimalism

Make each product the best it can be. Focus on form and materials. What we don't include is as important as what we do include.

I try as much as possible to give you a great basic product and what comes out, I feel, is really amazing.

Products have to be designed in a way that they are comprehensible.

We've discovered that the less we do, the more money we make.

I love a good set of basic white dishes.

My husband calls me 'throwy-outy' - he's horrified at how easily I dispense with things. People I won't let go of, but things, mementos from shows, I'm not particularly attached to.

If I wanted to make big, bombastic, distorted, echo-y, trippy music, the atmospheric stuff, a studio is nice. But it's nice to know that it's not necessary.

Too much clutter is a disturbance to the energy of a space for me. It's big no-no for me.

I don't bring anything expensive to the dorms.

You don't have to make things which are just expensive.

Our business has been extraordinarily lean from the beginning.

Extreme complication is contrary to art.

I would rather do two things really, really, really well than do 16 things and have 14 of them fail.

I usually have a lip balm in my bag and mascara as well. I don't really wear much make-up, but I like mascara because I've got fair colouring.

Usually when someone says a thing is too simple, they're saying that certain familiar things aren't there, and they're seeing a couple maybe that are left, which they count as a couple, that's all.

My friends tease me because I don't like clutter. I'm not someone who gets attached to things.

We're very tech light in our house.

I like food to be really simple but have a lot of technique all the same.

I'm pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway.

I can do without a television or a telephone, I think.

I don't listen to music. I don't watch television, I don't read.

I don't even own a television. I'm proud of that.

I keep everything very simple. I like telling stories.

In 'Dublinesque', Spanish writer Enrique Vila-Matas inverts the terms of Joyce's 'Ulysses' and tells the story of a man who, after living a hyperkinetic life like those of Odysseus and Leopold Bloom, resolves to never leave his room again and to reduce his mental activity to a minimum.