Quotes About Minimalism

When one has to leave behind almost everything, it hardly matters what one takes.

It's hard to be less than happy when you can be happy with less.

I hate modern car radios. In my car, I don't even have a push-button radio. It's just got a dial and two knobs. Just AM. One knob makes it louder, and one knob changes the station. When you're driving, that's all I want.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. — PICASSO

Partial culture runs to the ornate; extreme culture to simplicity.

cuando dice que no pasa nada, lo que quiere decir es que sabe que puede sobrevivir con lo mínimo.

in Japan, buying a lot of stuff for your children is considered indulgent. Wastefulness was frowned upon. Shopping bags should be saved to reuse many times, not recycled after one purchase.

Anton Webern moved composition to the brink of silence.

Learn to understand the real beauty of simplicity.

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

Danes don't believe that buying more stuff brings you happiness,' Christian told me. 'A bigger car just brings you a bigger tax bill in Denmark. And a bigger house just takes longer to clean.' In an approximation of the late, great Notorious B.I.G.'s profound precept, greater wealth means additional anxieties, or in Danish, according to my new favourite app, Google Translate, the somewhat less catchy 'mere penge, mere problemer'.

It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?

That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends.... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

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

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.

In art economy is always beauty.

Konstantin Levin did not like talking or hearing about the beauty of nature. For him words took away the beauty of what he saw.

Things wabi-sabi have no need for the reassurance of status or the validation of market culture. They have no need for documentation of provenance. Wabi-sabi-ness in no way depends on knowledge of the creator's background or personality. In fact, it is best if the creator is no distinction, invisible, or anonymous.

The closer things get to nonexistence, the more exquisite and evocative they become. Consequently to experience wabi-wabi means you have to slow way down, be patient, and look very closely.

I'll just get my things" "I understand." "Actually I haven't got any things.

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.

More is not better. Better is better. You don't need a bigger house; you need a different floor plan. You don't need more stuff; you need stuff you'll actually use.