Quotes About Minimalism

I'm writing about the meager minimum adorning it with purple, jewels and splendor. Is this how you write? No, it's not by accumulation but by stripping naked. But I fear nakedness, since it is the last word.

To write I begin by stripping myself of words. I prefer the poor words left over.

A humble life is not so impressive as compared to a more lavish life. But there is serenity in the simplicity of living.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

No voice, no low, no howl is heard; the chief sound of life here is a hiss.

The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.

The simplicity of her life seemed so compelling.

mind Nell was writing: —ornamentation of neck, wrists, fingers —paint on face only

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of the nonessentials.

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

A sabedoria da vida consiste em eliminar o que não é essencial.

She said, 'Have nothing in your houses which you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.' That was the beginning of my passion for design, textiles and William Morris, though I didn't know then that she was quoting him. She went to

You cannot have a taste for minimalist décor if you seriously read books.

The best artists know what to leave out. They know how much of the support should show through as the pigment is applied, what details aren't necessary.

Pero, dejando aparte los incongruentes colores primarios, de guardería, de la zona de visitas, la estética de Claverack es austera, y pone en evidencia lo aterradoramente poco que queda de la vida cuando le quitas los perifollos que la adornan.

If you ask me what minimalism is really about, I would say that it's the altering of values - enter the small doors of minimalism and come out on the other side with big ideas.

Im a fan of the restaurant where they only have one thing and maybe a vegetarian option. You get what you are given.

I have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester. They're both exactly as big as they need to be. I can't be doing with an ostentatious, big house - you can only be in one room at a time.

In my home I tend to eat a very simple version of what we cook at the restaurant, which is vegetable-oriented, with a little bit of fish and very little meat. For instance, a dish in my home could be steamed spinach with spruce, where I take a spruce branch and put it in the pot and that infuses into the spinach.

Whatever you do … avoid piles. —T. S. Eliot

Seek products designed with intelligence, and recognize that having fewer switches, buttons, or dials does not necessarily mean that the product is less sophisticated or offers fewer benefits or features. Quite the opposite might be true!

Couple this discovery with the realization that my things shouldn't own me and that life's meant to be lived, not displayed on Pinterest, and my sense is I've finally achieved something close to balance. I feel excellent about actually having

The organic produce guy, a young man who'd left Brooklyn in order to minimize his carbon footprint and consume only things he could make or grow himself. This had come to involve...going toilet-paper free the year before, and making his wife use discarded athletic socks for her monthly cycle.'That poor girl!' said Sylvie, privately resolving to figure out where the young woman was living and anonymously deliver some tampons, the really bad kind, with non biodegradable plastic applicators.

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