“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
“A poet knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
“Absolute perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing to add, but nothing to take away.”
“perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away”
“Even when we strive for perfection, life is nothing more than an attempt to achieve it through a series of greater or smaller imperfections.”
“In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.”