Quotes About Minimalism

I never have more than one bag at a time. I think one is already quite enough. Also, I hate changing bags, so I never have the thing of having ten bags. Any bag that's with me will take the same course as I will. It will take the same airplanes and will be squashed in the same way and will be used as a cushion in the airports.

Through your life, most people peel away the junk that's not useful, that's superfluous. You are determined to peel that away. I do one thing at a time. One man at a time. One car. One house. One child. One job.

I live by Edith Wharton's rule to get rid of anything neither useful nor beautiful. So I put the TV out on the street.

I wasn't always a minimalist. I used to buy a lot of things, believing that all those possessions would increase my self-worth and lead to a happier life. I loved collecting a lot of useless stuff, and I couldn't throw anything away.

Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

I like simplicity. I like using natural sources. I like images to look natural - as though somebody sitting in a room by a lamp is being lit by that lamp.

Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment.

The only thing that I travel with is an Ole Henriksen facial cleanser, something that my skin is used to avoid using different soaps at different hotels all the time, and Givenchy Man Pro-Energizing Massive Moisturizer. I usually keep my hair pretty short, too, so I don't require a lot of stuff.

If I'm not using something, I tend to sell it and move on, so I'm not too sentimental about hardware synths.

I am not one of these people who spend a ton of time in front on my computer; I see it as very utilitarian.

It is vain to do with more what can be done with fewer.

I am always looking for ways to move technology away from being over-featured. Moving to Silicon Valley in the mid-1990s meant I grew up as a designer in an environment where technology is a tool and not a means to an end. I believe that design should be driven by ideas, not style.

To me, the simplest things can have the highest value.

Find a judo solution, one that delivers maximum efficiency with minimum effort. When good enough gets the job done, go for it.

The best plans are always the simplest.

Life if curious when reduced to its essentials

People in Ember rarely threw anything away. They made the best possible use of what they had.

when we travel, most of us take too much. I always work on the assumption that I'm going to take everything with me because I don't want the second wife to have anything if the plane crashes.

I presume my work has also always been about reduction without any distraction or after effects, outside emotions, or intimacy or complicity with the subject.

I like the work hanging free in the frame. I don't like too much frame around it but I like a little breathing space around the piece.

It seems the less I do and say, the better everyone likes my work!

Believe it or not, I don't own a TV. Crazy huh? I'm not a big movie-goer either. I just feel like I'm watching work. I am always outside and couldn't care less about what's on TV these days.

The paradox of simplicity is that making things simpler is hard work.

I have no social agenda with my work. I'm deadpan about it.