Quotes About Minimalism

I'm not that materialistic. I like nice clothes and that, but I don't spend lots of money on stuff. I'm not really into TV, I don't have an iPod, I've got a gramophone.

I don't throw lavish parties or nothing like that - I just want a bed and a TV.

If I can play one note and make you cry, then that's better than those fancy dancers playing twenty notes.

I only work once or twice a year for about a month, so I have a lot of free time. But I'm good at being alone, which helps.

Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.

I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks; I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made.

When I started out making music I thought it was about thrills and adding layers, but I realized I want to focus on saying the most with the least.

I'm generous. I give good tips. It's just - the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don't want anything. I'm not a consumer. I don't crave objects.

I think in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.

incredulous. I decide in that moment to tell her the barest minimum.

Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.

I like songs that are simple.

Don't keep excessive amounts of anything. Those glass vases that come from florists. Those ketchup packets that come with take-out food. A house with two adults probably doesn't need fifteen mismatched souvenir coffee cups.

In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect.

An all-white space has a purity that is refreshing and serene.

With small spaces in particular you have to really follow the rule that if it's not absolutely beautiful or absolutely functional, then get rid of it.

Love people. Use things. The opposite never works.

Ask very little but ask of everyone.

The simpler, the better. Complications lead to multiplicative chains of unanticipated effects.

via negativa (acting by removing) is more powerful and less error-prone than via positiva (acting by addition

via negativa (acting by removing) is more powerful and less error-prone than via positiva (acting by additionfn1).

Less is more: Truth is lost with too much altercation

He did not even bother to have a desk, let alone an office.

Technology is at its best when it is invisible.