Quotes About Minimalism

But what I find so striking is their incredible simplicity.

I'm a vagabond. I live out of one suitcase. I feel very comfortable in black. I feel very uncomfortable in anything else than black.

I like doing things in a very minimal, unconventional way as a personal way of saying, 'Look, I made a career out of carefully and craftfully, though unconventionally, making records on laptops and blown speakers.'

We look our best in subdued colors, sophisticated cuts, and a general air of sleek understatement.

I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush.

I have all the socks and underwear I need.

Even on the red carpet, French celebrities keep it minimal. Think of Charlotte Gainsbourg - the look can be quite undone.

Beauty lies in simplicity.

Happiness is not about what you have but what you can do without.

Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

It is true that in France, women put on less things. If they have a necklace, they don't put on earrings; if they have nail polish, they don't put on all their rings and all their bracelets.

Specifically choose not to take a GPS. Just create a challenge. You can climb Everest or walk across Antarctica with minimal gear and still have that sense of adventure. But in terms of exploration, Google Earth has this world mapped down to the square foot.

The greenest home is the one you don't build. If you really want to save the Earth, move in with another family and share a house that's already built. Better yet, live in the forest and eat whatever the squirrels don't want.

Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.

I am a tumbleweed. I don't have a company. I don't have a staff. I don't own anything - I've never owned a car or an apartment.

What I learned then was there is a certain power in a three piece band. The more people you put on that stage, the more diluted it becomes.

There is something that feels stagnant about having things you don't use or wear. But shoes are my thing. Shoes and scarves, I'm a big fan of the scarf.

I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its sentimental value.

A small room is enough; a small quantity of food is enough; a few clothes are enough; one lover, a very ordinary man

I have lived to prove Thoreau's contention that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.

A man's wealth can...also be measured by what he doesn't have and doesn't want. When he wants little, he is a rich man.

What a lot of things there are a man can do without.

Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.