Quotes About Minimalism

My shows are not narratives.

The entire town of Monte Rio consisted of a gas station and a tire-flattened raccoon.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

My everyday beauty routine is always rushed and pretty simple.

Living simply has resulted in us becoming more aware of the environment and the impact we have on it.

Because it's everything a person needs to live a decent life. It has a stove for heat. A fridge to keep your food cold and a stove to cook it when you're ready to eat it. It has a bathtub and a shower to get you clean after your chores and a bed to lie down in at the end of the day. And that's all a person really needs. And I think the whole trouble with us is that we think we need so much more.

keep your food cold and a stove to cook it when you're ready to eat it. It has a bathtub and a shower to get you clean after your chores and a bed to lie down in at the end of the day. And that's all a person really needs. And I think the whole trouble with us is that we think we need so much more.

I find it touching, almost enviable, that a person with so little feels she has all she needs.

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Much of what we acquire in life isn't worth dragging to the next leg of our journey. Travel light. You will be better equipped to travel far.

As we started on our journey, I noticed that without possessions, I felt oddly free.

The white room is an interior to be made devoid of any specific sensualism emanated by objects. Ultimately it is classic white canvas expanded into three-dimensional space.

We talk far too much. We should talk less and draw more. I personally should like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic Nature, communicate everything I have to say in sketches.

Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.

Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

Stuffocation: being overwhelmed by the stuff one has bought or accumulated.

Self-reflection is the first step to decluttering because it's not about the stuff.

Carry your heart and your curls, and nothing more but your fingers.

There's a saying, "The learned man aims for more. But the wise man decreases. And then decreases again.

I'm trying to have fewer things in my life right now. This doesn't always mean fewer trinkets that shine on a shelf. It also might mean fewer things that upset me. Fewer people who bother me. Fewer regrets about things that are long dead and buried. Fewer anxieties about a future that may or may not exist.

The learned man aims for more. But the wise man decreases. And then decreases again." Everyone

Spiritually we need to recognize the importance of wanting less in our lives, to the point that we want to disappear.

Simplicity is king. You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal. (in a 1984 interview with The Paris Review)

but is simplicity enough?