Quotes About Minimalism

I'm in a state of my life when the essential is very important to me. I don't like long songs with complicated arrangements and breaks anymore.

Life's bare as a bone.

I've probably bought ten CDs in my whole life.

I actually believe in simplicity as a way of life. My wife and I are considering moving into a yurt!

I don't have a sence of style in real life. I'm more like same-clothes-every-day guy. I don't wear jewelry, I don't wear any of this.

To have little is to possess.

My own passion, all my life, has been non-collecting.

Makeup isn't something I've worn a lot of in my life.

If we have the khadi spirit in us, then we should surround ourselves with simplicity in every walk of life.

how important speed in scene-changes and economy of superfluous decoration was in mounting Shakespeare's plays to their best advantage,

If you want to be free, learn to live simply. Use what you have and be content where you are. Quit trying to solve your problems by moving to another place, by changing mates or careers. Leave your car in the garage. If you have a gun, put it away. Sell that complex computer and go back to using pencil and paper. Rather than read every new book that comes along, reread the classics. Eat food grown locally. Wear simple, durable clothing. Keep a small home

The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction.

If you are going to have less things, they have to be great things.

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful.

Semplicità significa sottrarre l'ovvio e aggiungere il significativo.

Basitlik, bariz olan? ç?kar?p anlaml? olan? ekleme iÅŸidir.

He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between.

Take nothing but photographs, leave nothing but footprints.

Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.

It might lack of warmth, confort, and sartorial splendor, but Kit was happy simply to be clothed.

He regarded meals as a waste of time and ate because his body required it; that was all.

Diogenes's quick wit and, dare we say it, cynical outlook disguised a first-class intellect focused on proving a single principle: that we have to own nothing, absolutely nothing, to be truly free.

Just simplify all that confusion and try to make life wonderfully simple again.

It's very rare that I put makeup on.