Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes

Simplify, simplify, simplify.

I've always thought that less was a lot more.

I always think less is more.

I usually go with the 'less is more' approach.

Less is only more where more is no good.

I have always believed in 'less is more' in everything I do, from work to my personal life.

Most people in business and within their personal lives move towards complexity. More To Dos. More projects. More products. More meetings. More possessions. More goals. The best - I suggest to you - move in the opposite direction.

A simple life is not seeing how little we can get by with-that's poverty-but how efficiently we can put first things first. . . . When you're clear about your purpose and your priorities, you can painlessly discard whatever does not support these, whether it's clutter in your cabinets or commitments on your calendar. (148)

The trick isn't adding stuff, it's taking away.

Believe it or not, it is not only possible to accomplish more by doing less, it is mandatory. Enter the world of elimination.

I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.

I continue to be drawn to clarity and simplicity. 'Less is more' remains my mantra.

I sometimes think less is more. If you cut yourself in too many places, it is hard to execute.

I'm a minimalist kind of person: only one pair of boots, one pair of pants, and if I could, only one shirt.

It's amazing to me how often the answer to making something sound better is to play something less.

Sometimes I think albums are so ambitious, they don't stand as bodies of work because you try to achieve so much, and sometimes we need to do less. Say less.

You don't really need much. I try to live my life with that sort of minimalist mentality.

Do less than you ever thought it was possible to do.

I am a minimalist. I like saying the most with the least.

There is but one art, to omit! Oh, if I knew how to omit I would ask no other knowledge. A man who knows how to omit would make an Iliad of a daily paper.

Simplicity requires ruthlessness.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.

Good design means as little design as possible.

People who don’t know how to summarize have no dignity. Neither do people who needlessly drag on their messy lives. They who don’t know the beauty of simplification, of pruning away the unnecessary, die without ever comprehending the true meaning of life.

Less is more, in prose as in architecture.