"The minimum could be defined as the perfection that an artefact achieves when it is no longer possible to improve it by subtraction. This is the quality that an object has when every component, every detail, and every junction has been reduced or condensed to the essentials. it is the result of the omission of the inessentials."

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Source : "Less really is more" by Luke Jennings, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2006.

John Pawson

#Omission Quotes #Perfection Quotes #Quality Quotes

“Energy creates energy. It is by spending myself that I become rich.”
“A second-class mind dealing with third-class material is hardly a necessity of life.”
“I don't believe Chinese movies should only have Chinese cast and talents shooting it with a Chinese story.”
“Listen, people like Brian Bendis did great things for comic readers, great things for comic readers.”

Source : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. February 10, 2004.
“What do we need spectators for? The game should be played behind closed doors. Football is an art!”
“And what is literature, Rabo," he said, "but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the universe but a few molecules who have the disease called 'thought'.”
“Thoughts are things...treat them accordingly.”
“I HIDE myself within my flower That wearing on your breast, You, unsuspecting, wear me tooâ€” And angels know the rest. I hide myself within my flower, That, fading from your vase, You, unsuspecting, feel for me Almost a loneliness...”

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