Quotes About Minimalism

I always wear the same thing: a tight white shirt - I have about 50 - and tight black trousers.

The only pair of trousers a guy needs are grey flannel.

Less is more. I truly believe in buying a few pieces with better construction.

I make black and white prints because I want to go back to the beginning.

Complexity is acceptable as long as it is intelligible and necessary. We want to avoid needless complications.

Let your diet be spare, your wants moderate, your needs few. So, living modestly, with no distracting desires, you will find content.

Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods.

One of the easiest ways to go green is to go small. I want to show people that there's an amazing modern green future, and make it easy for them to step into it.

The same way that mid century modern architecture was in the 50s, I want to be as a human being. New. Different. Challenging the old. Function over frivolity. Clean living. Clean lines.

What I feel best about is that while I enjoy what I have and don't want to lose it, I also don't need it.

I don't care so much about form. Perhaps I did in the beginning, a long time ago. But now I just want to be as straight and simple and as true as possible.

In a small space, you want to keep the bedding as simple as possible so it looks clean, calm and collected.

Here is a guaranteed way to get more of what you want: want less.

Life just wants to be; but it doesn't want to be much.

I always use given and simple elements, I don't want to add or subtract anything.

That's all it was.

Indians only needed so many implements and decorations. If a tribe drove three hundred buffalo over a cliff, they wouldn't feel obligated to make twenty-four hundred buffalo-hoof spoons and six hundred buffalo-horn charcoal carriers. Rather, they might just take the meat and hides from the best-looking female buffalo, those that weren't too smashed up or buried under other buffalo. That might be all they touched. After all, their time and energy had value, just as ours does.

Het eenvoudige besef, te weten dat men voor altijd een stevig dak boven het hoofd heeft, een tafel om aan te werken, een ander om aan te eten, een bed om in te rusten na het werk, en voor de rest niets te verlangen of te begeren en alles laten zijn gang gaan. In niets geen zwarigheden maken: Ne donner aucune importance à des choses qui n'ont pas d'importance. Dát is het geluk.

long ago gave up a number of beekeeping practices conceived with the notion of making bees do certain things that seemed good from a human standpoint but which usually involved radically disrupting the hive. Instead, I watch the bees more, try to understand what they are doing and then see if I can work in a way that will be in keeping with their biology and behavior. I try to create conditions that will make them happy, and then leave them alone as much as possible.

On packing Lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then, take half the clothes and twice the money.

I wouldn't say I'm that social... I'm either sailing my boat by myself or living in some small place.

I don't have a real home. When I got 'Avatar,' I sold everything that I owned because I knew it was going to be a long journey. I've got two bags, and that was four years ago, and I've been working ever since, and I've still only got two bags - a bag of books and a bag of clothes. That's about it.

I've sold all but one of my microphones, put away my mini-notebooks, stopped scouring the Internet for scraps of wisdom.

To me theres nothing nicer than a pan-fried sole and some fresh salad, keep it simple.