Quotes About Minimalism

It's rare that you can solve a technology problem with more technology.

Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, that's a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product. The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple.

I love talking the way Trappists love silence.

she had everything she wanted; all she had to do was convince herself that she wanted very little.

Last time she had been here, the room had been pastel, romantic and soft. Now it was icily white. It was urban, out of a slick magazine, as if some cold, successful woman lived here with two possessions and an empty refrigerator.

Great Granny Webster seemed to hate colours. Almost everything she owned was either black or dark brown.

Simplicity, to me, has always been the essence of good taste.

John was a man of few words and many grunts and one of his grunts could express a volume. He had a variety of them which he adapted as the situation arose. But they all seemed to express his view on life, the principle of which was, 'you leave me be, and I'll leave you be';

As the water pounded on my back, I reflected that I must be pretty simple. It didn't take much to make me happy. A long night with a dead guy had done the trick.

JB's mind is like an open book with maybe two words per page.)

It's really weird because my house is very ornate, but my writing lair is very, very blank. It's white, the furniture is white. It gives me nothing to look at, so I just have to concentrate!

I got rid of my place in L.A. I had this beautiful condo in Taluca Lake, but I was like, 'Why am I paying for this when I'm all over?'

The exercises of our meeting are to be simple and devoid of all ceremonial and formalism.

I don't keep a lot of memorabilia around.

I don't hoard things and I don't cling to memories.

You don't really need much. I try to live my life with that sort of minimalist mentality.

One-pot meals make a lot of sense... because so much of what people hate about cooking is really the cleanup, the mess, the grease.

I hate mess. I have the worst OCD so I'm not a hoarder of clothes.

I have no message.

I always prided myself on the fact that I could live out of milk crates forever. It was kind of my way of detaching from materialism.

I don't have any furniture of mine in my room.

I try to focus on the melodies and try to make everything else minimal. The melody and the lyrics are most important to me.

Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal.

Minimal is the word I'd use to describe how I live and dress, and it's also how I sing. I'm not a big fan of overemoting.