Quotes About Minimalism

The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.

Free yourself from the complexities of your life! A life of simplicity and happiness awaits you."

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. —Alice Walker

I would have liked to invent the plain white shirt, with a skirt and pants to go with it.

I prefer clothes that are simple, well-cut, but with one major extravagance. Something with the sleeves, with the skirt, but nothing too fussy, too flashy.

Black is just such an easy colour to wear and always looks cool and slick.

Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.

But now I feel off the grid. I feel that I am not part of the culture. And because I don't have a car I don't really go anywhere to buy things. In fact, I have been in a slow process of selling and giving away everything I own.

Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly.

Apartments are getting smaller on a whole. Houses are getting smaller. People don't need great big vacuums anymore.

America's lifestyle expectations are far too high and need to be adjusted so we have less things and a smaller, better existence.

I want almost no laws, I want the smallest government possible. I don't want anyone telling anyone what to do.

I find the less stuff I smear on my skin, the better it looks.

When me and Sheila got married, all we had was an oval table, four chairs, a bed, and a painting by Matthew Smith.

For the day, keep it simple, basic, minimalistic, natural. Stick to peaches and pinks. For night, you can add colour to your eyes, make them smoky, and also use shimmer and bronzer. Night make up also calls for louder lip colours.

It's funny, I probably have 500 pairs of shoes - all these sneakers or whatever that I've collected - but when push comes to shove, I always end up wearing the same two or three pairs.

Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel.

It is a waste to use too many words when just a few will do.

Suburban transcendence for the Ikea age.

I always listen to what I can leave out.

I love... anything in black and white. Just put it on the TV, I'll watch.

I do love the ceremony of putting on a record but I don't have space for a vinyl collection.

I love sculpture, and minimal sculpture is really my favorite stuff, but I wasn't very good at it, and I don't think in a three-dimensional way.

I tend to like poems that are short as well as funny. I love Joe Brainard and Aram Saroyan. And I think their sense of humor and minimalist approach are pretty radical.