Quotes About Minimalism

We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.

Sometimes not much is just enough.

I love a life whose plot is simple.

I try not to be sentimental and obsessive about possessions. I love collecting, but I hate owning.

I love the laconic. Clearly, I am not of their number.

When you're brave enough to let go of anything you don't absolutely love or need, what you have left is the space for stillness and possibility.

In real life I've learned to love not wearing any makeup whatsoever, and I'm super low-maintenance when it comes to my hair.

I try not to bring in anything I don't love looking at. It's about restaint ... There is something about an unfinished quality that leaves within you that sense of possibility.

His life was one of simplicity and deprivation.

We need much less than we think we need.

The epitome of sophistication is utter simplicity.

Shun epic verse.

It is vain to do with more what can be done with fewer.

I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.

I was always on set, I was always working, so my study was down to the bare minimum required. So I am one of the few who didn't study 'Lord of the Flies.'

I don't like clothes. I don't especially like cars. I have a very nice house. I get sick on a boat.

I don't really collect anything. I grew up in a family that collected things, and then they'd get sick, and people die, and then they have their basements full of stuff that goes from one box to the next, so I try not to get sentimental with stuff. I just try to collect memories; I guess that would be it.

Silence is so accurate.

Silence is best.

Silence is the most powerful state.

Buddhada was a man of few words. You can see the importance of silence in his cinema. There are long stretches of no dialogue in his films.

Ever since I made the short film 'Black And White,' which had almost no dialogues, the idea of making a silent feature film fascinated me.

My favorite colors are black, white and silver.

Anything simple always interests me.