Quotes About Minimalism

With coarse grain to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow: I still have joy in the midst of these things

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

for Steve, less is always more, simpler is always better. Therefore, if you can build a glass box with fewer elements, it's better, it's simpler, and it's at the forefront of technology. That's where Steve likes to be, in both his products and his stores.

Simplicity isn't just a visual style. It's not just minimalism or the absence of clutter. It involves digging through the depth of the complexity. To be truly simple, you have to go really deep.

You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential.

Let's make it simple. Really simple

La sencillez es la máxima sofisticación».

what would have been a dining room. He wanted around him only things

Apple's design mantra would remain the one featured on its first brochure: "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

one featured on its first brochure: "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." Jobs felt that design simplicity should be linked to making products easy to use. Those goals do not always go together. Sometimes a design can be so sleek and simple that a user finds it intimidating or unfriendly to navigate. "The main thing in our design is that we have to

Buddhism, was not just some passing fancy or youthful dabbling. He embraced it with his typical intensity, and it became deeply ingrained in his personality. "Steve is very much Zen," said Kottke. "It was a deep influence. You see it in his whole approach of stark, minimalist aesthetics, intense

Plus, for Steve, less is always more, simpler is always better. Therefore, if you can build a glass box with fewer elements, it's better, it's simpler, and it's at the forefront of technology. That's where Steve likes to be, in both his products and his stores.

There was no CD tray, just a subtle slot. And as with the original Macintosh, there was no

things, by removing the superfluous." The G4 Cube was almost ostentatious

Even at a young age Lisa began to realize his diet obsessions reflected a life philosophy, one in which asceticism and minimalism could heighten subsequent sensations. "He believed that great harvests came from arid sources, pleasure from restraint," she noted. "He knew the equations that most people didn't know: Things led to their opposites.

Ive was a fan of the German industrial designer Dieter Rams, who worked for the electronics firm Braun. Rams preached the gospel of "Less but better," Weniger aber besser, and likewise Jobs and Ive wrestled with each new design to see how much they could simplify it.

He would aim for simplicity and beauty, and beauty for him was, after all, essentially simplicity.

Nature is pleased with simplicity

It was important to avoid attachment to material objects. Our consumer desires are unhealthy.

To come to possess all desire the possession of nothing.

simplify your life by not seeking another thing.

Reduce what's in excess in your life and then offer it where it can be utilized.

Begin to consciously decrease your need to purchase more things.

It is certain, I think, that the best government is the one that governs the least. But there is a much-neglected corollary: the best citizen is the one who least needs governing.