Quotes About Minimalism

Everybody knows I wear a lot of black. When I pack, my whole bag is nothing but black, but sometimes, I have, like, a few pieces that are white, but it's rare.

I don't wear perfume, and I rarely wear jewelry.

I rarely use product in my hair, and when I do I have no idea which ones, nor does it matter all that much to me. And I can't remember the last time I even used a comb, much less carried one around.

I am the world's laziest shopper, but very rarely have I had to take anything back.

I don't like a lot of monitors on stage. I like the real raw sound of the open piano.

I'm gradually getting rid of all the things I don't need.

I'm a pragmatist, and I don't like gratuitous fashion - in fact, there's not that much gratuitous anything in my life.

A gray V-neck pullover from Gap. I have 30 of them.

I'm a terrible grocery shopper. I hardly ever do it. And if I do, there's never more than three things in the bag.

I've always liked simple. Growing up, I wore corduroys and Lacoste shirts, Maraolo flats, and maybe one gold bracelet.

I'm a very light packer. I don't like checking in luggage. I only like hand luggage.

You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects.

the majority of what you want will come from the minority of what you do.

True affluence is not needing anything.

The story can be told without many words.

Because of what's going on with the economy, I think women are realizing that maybe they don't need a closet full of clothes. They just need the right clothes.

It's a wonderful thing to make work that is unadorned either by context, framing or label, that can exist in the changing conditions of light, weather, wind.

I love really simple colours at home - lots of cream, beige, and grey with rustic wooden tables.

I love the cleanness of Kaare Klint and Rud Rasmussen furniture, especially the wooden criss-cross under-bars of their sofas.

I have no fancy living at all. Well, I have a house in Sun Valley. Five acres in the woods. I guess that's fancy.

Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?

As a cinematographer, I was always attracted to stories that have the potential to be told with as few words as possible.

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

I'm more interested in having a place to work out my voice and my body than I am in having furniture.