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“I consider minimalism not as a destination but rather as a tool and a mindset to reduce distractions and overwhelm. It is not a competition. You are a winner if you find the amount of stuff and size of your home to be perfect for you and your lifestyle and situation. You only lose if you never consider the potential benefits of decluttering and leave your loved ones with messes and burdens.”

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Book:Lighter Living: Declutter. Organize. Simplify.

Source: Lighter Living: Declutter. Organize. Simplify.

“It is not last season, it is archival. It is not secondhand, it is sustainable. It is not outfit repeating, it is style consistency.”

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Author:Janna Cachola

“Fill everything, but own nothing. We are vessels, not containers”

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Author:Dr. Toyin Omofoye

“If you like a wild horse, you have to let it be in the wild. If you bring it to your stable, it becomes a domesticated horse. It loses all its essence. You like things and people. You try to make them your own. After too much struggle, when they become your own, they lose their essence. Then you like new things and the endless circle continues...”

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Author:Shunya

“I was oblivion.”

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Book:The Devil Takes You Home

Source: The Devil Takes You Home

“I've found that the less stuff I own, the less my stuff owns me.”

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Author:Nathan W. Morris

“Your happiness is directly proportional to how much you enjoy what you have today.”

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Book:Quantraz

Source: Quantraz

“Life is simple; we make it complicated.”

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Book:Quantraz

Source: Quantraz

“Happiness is a personal choice and a collective need.”

Life Happiness Success Peace Minimalism

Book:Quantraz

Source: Quantraz

“The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple.”

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Author:Doris Janzen Longacre

“If one's life is simple, contentment has to come.”

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Author:Dalai Lama

“No matter how brilliant, amusing or intelligent the creek of abstraction, Dadaism, Minimalism and Conceptualism of the 20th century was, it didn't much affect the historical river of figuration. I predict that in 50 years and in 300 years, figurative art will still be strong and important.”

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Author:Mark Kostabi

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple, to truly understand the underlying challenges and come up with elegant solutions. [...] It's not just minimalism or the absence of clutter. It involves digging through the depth of complexity. To be truly simple, you have to go really deep. [...] You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential.”

“If one had taken what is necessary to cover one's needs and had left the rest to those who are in need, no one would be rich, no one would be poor, no one would be in need.”

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Author:Saint Basil

“I think there's a kind of built-in arrogance to anyone who considers themself an artist. They want to feel as though like they can run the whole spectrum. "I can do it all. I can do minimalism, and I can do classical art." Well, that's not true.”

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Author:Sylvester Stallone

“The concept of minimalism is to relax. Like a Zen monk in training, it is something that brings equilibrium to the heart. I don't necessarily think it has any problems, but if I were to force myself to name one, I would say that since the minimalist feeling already includes its own universe, I think it might kill the drive that we would otherwise have to commit the physically impossible and attempt to travel into outer space.”

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Author:Takashi Murakami

“Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.”

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Book:Modes and Morals

Source: Modes and Morals

“Gertrude Stein, all courage and will, is a soldier of minimalism. Her work, unlike the resonating silences in the art of Samuel Beckett, embodies in its loquacity and verbosity the curious paradox of the minimalist form. This art of the nuance in repetition and placement she shares with the orchestral compositions of Philip Glass.”

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Book:Sight-readings: American Fictions

Source: Sight-readings: American Fictions

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

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Author:Josh Becker

“The rules that I adhere to are the rules of minimalism. And those rules kind of force writing to be more filmic... to have the immediacy and accessibility of film so that the reader really has to fill in a lot of the details.”

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Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“Your character is your destiny. Building character is a task for the brave and dedicated. There are no shortcuts when it comes to building character. If you wish to cure minimalism in your own life, to develop a complete commitment to excellence and an absolute rejection of mediocrity, the question you need to start asking yourself is, "What is the most I can do?"”

Source: The Rhythm of Life: Living Every Day with Passion and Purpose

“I was lucky to be born during the time of minimalism. I think I can be colder because of this. In form I speak with minimalism but my feeling is sentimental - I am a sentimental minimalist.”

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Author:Christian Boltanski

“I think minimalism is something I just got attracted to just in general because I like the empty space, if you think about it, like there's a lot of empty space. So there are sounds there, there are chords, like coordinates, to sort of tell you where the emotion is going, but then it leaves so much room for the voice to do other things.”

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Author:Pharrell Williams

“In a way, simplifying your life for vagabonding is easier than it sounds. This is because travel by its very nature demands simplicity. If you don't believe this, just go home and try stuffing everything you own into a backpack. This will never work, because no matter how meagerly you live at home, you can't match the scaled-down minimalism that travel requires.”

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Author:Rolf Potts

“I'm a big believer in minimalism. Not materialist minimalism although that's part of it but time and energy minimalism. The body is given only so much energy a day.”

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Author:James Altucher

“The simplest things are often the truest.”

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Author:Richard Bach

“Minimalism itself had a very strong iconoclast impulse. You think of the sixties as loose and liberated, but in art it was actually quite the contrary.”

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Author:Peter Schjeldahl

“I had a very different vibe then, I was very into minimalism. I was kind of obsessed with Helmut Lang and [Martin] Margiela.”

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Author:Roopal Patel

“Fashion is meant to be wild and expressive. I love colour but I also love basics - grungy minimalism mixed with this kind of broken-down cheerleader, is my thing.”

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Author:Charli XCX

“I started reading contemporary fiction in college or right after college. It wasn't as if I was steeped in experimental minimalism when I was twelve or something. I was reading The Witch of Blackbird Pond.”

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Author:Leni Zumas

“"Simple" is a tricky word, it can mean a lot of things. To us, it just means clear. That doesn't always mean total reduction, or minimalism - sometimes, to make things clearer, you have to add a step.”

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Author:Jason Fried

“My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.”

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Author:Abbas Kiarostami

“There is a tendency in my work toward minimalism, in terms of stripping away the unnecessary. I am seeking a tightly ordered gestalt, usually. I've always felt a strong affinity towards Mondrian's work. I understand the importance of those subtle planar and linear modulations he made in the course of building up the incredible visual tension in his work.”

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Author:Philip Taaffe

“I'm not so interested in this series of ruptures, where minimalism took over pop art, and then neo-expressionism was a triumph over that. I'm not interested in rupture - I'm interested in healing, bringing things together, building bridges. Not dismissing what has come before as a kind of modernist precedent, where one thing has to be broken in order to achieve something else. I don't believe in that kind of attitude. I think we're beyond that at this stage.”

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Author:Philip Taaffe

“It depends on what kind of minimalism you're talking about, of course. I love both those artists - Brian Eno and William Basinski. I would say my minimalism references are early American minimalists from the 70s.”

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Author:Tim Hecker

“When I admire a writer, it's for the recognizable palette - Hemingway's minimalism, the dialogue, those isolated bar scenes. But with each story or novel, he shows me something different within the framework he's built - like noticing that there's a chair in the corner I didn't see in another story.”

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Author:Jill Talbot

“Minimalism wasn't a real idea - it ended before it started.”

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Author:Sol LeWitt

“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.”

“Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.”

“Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.”

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Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.”

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Author:Will Rogers

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”

“Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.”

Source: Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist's Year

“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.”

“You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.”

“Live simply so that others may simply live.”

“My thoughts are messy, my emotions are messy, my body goes in and out at will. The raised white scars on my arms and legs are the only aspect of my being that comes close to minimalism. They came from chaos, but it is hard to carve frustration and unease into the flesh. Only straight lines.”

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Book:Thin Skin

Source: Thin Skin

“Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“Life's too short for minimalism.”

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Book:The Secret Dreamworld Of A Shopaholic: (Shopaholic Book 1)

Source: The Secret Dreamworld Of A Shopaholic: (Shopaholic Book 1)

“There was a big drive when I was at art school to make you aware of the economy of meaning - after all, this was still during the tail end of minimalism. Being responsible for everything you put in your picture, and being able to defend it. Keeping everything clear around you so you know what is operating. To open the wound and keep it clean.”

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Author:Jane Campion

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