Quotes About Minimalism

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. —Antoine de Saint-Exup

The Power of Less: The Fine Art of Limiting Yourself to the Essential . . . in Business and in Life, Essential Zen Habits: Mastering the Art of Change, Briefly, and several other books.

Si sientes continuamente la contraproducente necesidad de tener volumen de trabajo y de hacer muchas cosas, escribe esto en un post-it:

Our life is frittered away by detail…. Simplify, simplify…. A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone." —Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Marie Kondo method: "Discard [say no to] everything that does not spark joy." This includes personal obligations. I'm working

Living Well" (Barron's, March 20, 2006, Suzanne McGee). 4. Goldian VandenBroeck, ed. From Less Is More: An Anthology of Ancient and Modern Voices Raised in Praise of Simplicity (Inner Traditions, 1996).

The important lesson here is to see what you can leave out of your life. If you consider music, for example, it is obvious that the space between the notes makes all the difference.

I don't buy fur coats or jewelry. I have old cars.

I live in an old house with no closets and no built-ins. I hate big cupboards.

I do not own a cellphone; I do not use a cellphone. I do not have a phone. No. Phone. Not even an old-fashioned dumb one. Nothing.

Details are always vulgar

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

Excess is essential to the production of austerity.

He loved possessions, not masses of them, but a select few that he did not part with. They gave a man self-respect. Not ostentation but quality, and the love that cherished the quality. Possessions reminded him that he existed, and made him enjoy his existence.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

The key to finding a happy balance in modern life is simplicity.

Simplicity, very rare in our age.

But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.

He [Calvin Coolidge] is the first president to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

Oh, it ain't mine. I don't own anything I can't carry or that won't follow me when I whistle.

What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer.

She'd yet to see a book in any Bigendian environment. He was a creature of screens, of bare expanses of desk or table, empty shelves. He owned, as far as she knew, no art. In some way, she suspected, he regarded it as competition, noise to his signal.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.