Minimalist Muse Gifts

''Live simply so that others may simply live?' Cute, but what's my motivation?'

'Wow, talk about genius!'

You can't have everything...

"I was grinding out barnyards and farmhouses and cows in the meadows, and then, suddenly, I figured to hell with it."

"I was at my sister's today. They have two pots."

'There's a strong minimalist influence in this artist's work.' 'Good! The less there is of it, the better.'

'Sorry, but I think your Mondrian tattoo was a mistake.'

"He's so full of ideas!"

That shows business confidence.

(Camel paintings)

"Too 'Book of Genesis'?"

Man showing in the rain.

"We needn't have a fancy home, just a place to rest when we no longer roam."

Mr. Empirical With "Antarctica""Small is hostile. Rage contributes to shift away from literality. I'm off to True Value Hardware for some more self-reference tools."

"I was going to call it 'Empty Plinth', but then I settled on 'Winter's Smile'...I wanted to capture the 'nothingness' of an 'absence of anything'..."

"Try picking up a girl after you've renounced everything."

"I condensed my painting to the pure essence of the message. What helps me a lot is the fact that I've got nothing to say at all."

"I believe it took a team of twenty five, working six months at a cost of �250, 000 to come up with that."

Not much money, glory, or praise

"It keeps it out of sight when we're not watching it."

'At least I never have to straighten it out.'

Japanese woman in minimalist house reads 'How to Clutter Your Life'

"... and this is Carol’s stupid meditation room."

"There's lots of things in my life I absolutely needed to put in, and now there's lots of things in my life I absolutely need to get out."

"Don't you find her work just so wonderfully liberating!"

I'm organizing the house. Can I help? Do you have any storage bins for stuff we don't use very often? Hold on. I have just the thing! Thanks, mom.

It tells you the time? That's all it does? Well, isn't that just the cutest little thing?

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'The difference between the sexes...First Contact...'

"Hoarder."

'Occam's famed tool of parsimony.'

Only a few things are really important, most things are not.

"For some, minimalism begins at a very early age..."

"It's called 'Sold'."

'I love what you've not done with the place.'