Quotes About Minimalism

Again I resume the long lesson: how small a thing can be pleasing, how little in this hard world it takes to satisfy the mind and bring it to its rest.

It means living closer together and sharing more spaces, walls, and vehicles. It means collecting experiences rather than objects.

Lonesomeness. Morandi, Cezanne, it's all about lonesomeness. And Rothko. Especially Rothko.

I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it.

I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back.

I never use colors. Black and white are all I need. Most of my clothes are black and white, too. I suppose the most flamboyant color in my wardrobe is dark brown.

Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.

Winter is a white-gray paradise blunted of details — the simple season.

Your lean process should be a lean process.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

Eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

The trouble with traffic engineers is that when there's a problem with a road, they always try to add something. To my mind, it's much better to remove things.

Coffee black, water tap, whisky neat.

To say more is to say less.

haiku were not written to be weighed down with commentary. (Buson, p. 103)

The Horatian Spanish poet Antonio Machado defined poetry as 'a few true words', a definition that sounds minimal, even despairing, until you reflect on what a few true words can do.

The life of less, one bent on simplicity, and not needing or wanting anything other than what God has deemed good for you turns out to be all you could ever need or want.

And yet the most valuable things are attained with the least effort. But one does not realize their importance. One would rather have something which is attained with a great effort

What modern man wants is a monk's cell, well lit and heated, with a corner from which he may look at the stars. Page 59

Jony, too, would become a master of the approach, agreeing with Jobs's mantra: 'Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

We are not interested in design statements. We do everything we can to simplify design.

I said nothing. I'm good at saying nothing. I don't like talking. I could go the rest of my life without saying another word, if I had to.

There are two ways to get enough: one is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less. — G. K. CHESTERTON

The less said the better.