The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary that the necessary may speak

i saw this in a comment on a YouTube short about taking low-fidelity pixels and making them look like brushstrokes, but it's applicable to life in that it speaks to the concept of minimalism: keeping only the things that are necessary in your home, life, work, etc.

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-Hans Hofmann, a German painter