Quotes About Minimalism

They added a cheap gift to the expensive product, and made the whole deal less attractive. Less is more in this case.

Remember you don't really own anything you can't carry at a dead run.

Remember me? I'm back to my old self again. No responsibilities, no attachments, no encumbrances. I don't want to own anything, love anyone, or get too attached to people, places or things. It's a rule that seems to work well for me.

Don't go crazy with art supplies at first. Just get a sketchbook and a pen that'll fit in your bag and keep them with you for when a moment opens up.

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.

I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.

Ockham's disposable razors

It's quicker, easier, and involves less licking

People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity.

Are you a minimalist? Do you take pride in a reductive life? Minimalists are actually extreme hoarders: they hoard space, and they're just as odd as those people with seven rooms filled with newspapers, dead cats and margarine tubs

To every problem, there is a most simple solution.

The walls were a shade just off-white—the thick pile carpet was so neutral as to be almost colourless—so was the upholstery. Chromium gleamed here and there,

I felt condemned to obscurity and to celibacy. But when one is driven by passion, one can live on almost nothing, and I was driven by passion for writing. One does not starve in modern, Western societies, and one can do without such amenities as the telephone, a car, entertainment.

In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness.

I have always believed in 'less is more' in everything I do, from work to my personal life.

I am very simple and minimalistic when it comes to dressing up in my personal life.

Evening bags should be just big enough for my phone, lipstick, house key, and credit card.

I like to get rid of things; I don't collect many things. But I do keep great photography and art books.

It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.

I'm interested in fashion; I buy fairly good pieces, and I think as I've gotten older, I've pared down a lot.

When people pile seven things onto one burger, it drives me nuts!

When I fly, I never check my bags. I bring a carry-on, an eye pillow, noise-canceling headphones, a big pillow and a blanket.

I'm really not into that super-crazy-colour, smiley-faces-on-the-front-of-your-dress look. That's not my thing. You're not going to see me in pink. Or anything frilly. Or a tutu. Or bows.

I don't use a wallet. My money is just free-flowing in my bag.