The first step in crafting the life you want is to get rid of everything you don’t.

Make art and live simply.

trashy, profane and obscene” poems of Whitman and Ginsberg, [and] Martha Graham’s expressionism. I am, myself, a minimalist. But I love distortion guitar and the wild exhibitionism of so many American artists. Also, these divisions...

Owning less is better than organizing more.

Simplicity is all but nothing that’s there.

You sell off the kingdom piece by piece and trade it for a horse that will take you anywhere.

Minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of anything that distracts us from it.

The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work.

I am a worried person with a stressed out soul, living a simple life with no capital.

I’ve found that the less stuff I own, the less my stuff owns me.

There’s been a lot written on the topic of minimalism. But I still believe in it.

To be invisible, paint yourself with the direct shade of 0. Leave nothing to chance, by taking nothing with you wherever you go.

Edit your life frequently and ruthlessly. It’s your masterpiece after all.

So through a world of piety I made my way to Sebastian.

It’s not always that we need to do more but rather that we need to focus on less.

As for clothing, to come at once to the practical part of the question, perhaps we are led oftener by the love of novelty, and a regard for the opinions of men, in procuring it,...

A fast is not necessarily something we offer God, but it assists us in offering ourselves

Eyes blinded by the fog of thingscannot see truth.Ears deafened by the din of thingscannot hear truth.Brains bewildered by the whirl of thingscannot think truth.Hearts deadened by the weight of thingscannot feel truth.Throats choked by...

Do you think the wren ever dreams of a better house?

The IdealThis is where I came from.I passed this way.This should not be shameful Or hard to say.A self is a self. It is not a screen. A person should respectWhat he has been. This...

This is today! What will tomorrow bring? Life arrives and departs on its own schedule, not ours; it’s time to travel light, and be ready to go wherever it takes us.

Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over.

Write that novel, sail that boat. And if you can’t, immerse yourself in the fantasy, be the ultimate dabbler, just enjoy what it is you enjoy. It’ll help you get well if you’re going to...

You can kill people with sound. And if you can kill, then maybe there is also the sound that is opposite of killing. And the distance between these two points is very big. And you...

Own less stuff. Enjoy more freedom. It really is that simple.

Simplicity is complex. It’s never simple to keep things simple. Simple solutions require the most advanced thinking.

Minimalism means not trying to improve perfection.