Quotes About Minimalism

We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.

Bling is passe, and I like my style to reflect just that. Ruthless editing defines true style perfectly.

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.

My wife Hillary sometimes accuses me of trying to reinvent the 19th century. In some ways she's right because I like things that I can understand and that aren't too complicated.

Here's the thing that I think about life - if you manage to get into a space where you don't need that much, where the overhead of your life is not that great and you're pretty happy and relaxed without that much stuff, you are really liberated because you never have to say yes to something because you want another refrigerator or car!

Normally, what I do for fun is just nothing. I try to just relax. Normally, it involves just relaxing and reading and maybe going out and meeting up with a friend. I live a very simple existence. I would much rather just sit around and listen to a couple of records and read the paper.

I don't spend on expensive brands. I don't need foreign holidays.

Hollywood could use less instead of more of everything.

If Home Depot doesn't have it, Mark Bradford doesn't need it.

I have a very spartan flat in London, and when they see it people say: 'Why don't you make it more homely?' The reason is that it's just a place to sleep when I'm working.

Honestly, I just assume that whatever is going to happen to me is going to happen. There it goes: someone is there, someone isn't there. This girl is here. This food is here. I think the clever people are the ones who do a little as possible.

I find the aesthetics of the 20th century hopelessly barren.

As a Scandinavian, I like hopelessness and the weird austerity in the hopelessness of things.

I drive one car. I own one house. That's enough for me.

I got in the habit of giving away a book as soon as I've finished it because I lived in a housing co-op at Cambridge and had no space to keep books.

I'm a huge fan of not doing world-building or exposition. My eyes glaze over when I see it.

I like Oribe mousse; however I don't use too many hair products. I'm a huge fan of bandanas and hats.

I was already tired of talking, and I'd said very little.

Just one olive, though

Blaise rather liked the way that manners had been pared down to their essentials.

The more bare a life is, the more we fear change.

The trick in life is to want nothing. And then work our way towards achieving that.

I inherited some Chanel pieces from my mother. I've worn Prada - absolutely. Wonderful designers are inspiring. I also love designers not known. I love a lot of vintage pieces. I am pretty minimal, pretty classic.

Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together - a shirt, a sweater, a jacket - and it's too complicated. I would have worn only a v-neck sweater, it would have been better. It's not the clothes but it's how you wear them sometimes.