https://www.shafiq.in/tags/perfection/ Recent content in Perfection on Shafiq Alibhai Hugo en-GB 2009-2026 All rights reserved. Sun, 26 Aug 2018 19:12:13 +0000 https://www.shafiq.in/blog/perfection-is-subtraction/ Sun, 26 Aug 2018 19:12:13 +0000 https://www.shafiq.in/blog/perfection-is-subtraction/ <p>It seems that perfection would be attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away. —Antoine de St. Exupery, Terre des Hommes, 1939</p> <p>I keep coming back to this one. Not because it is particularly deep — we have all heard the version about a masterpiece being complete when there is nothing left to add — but because it got me thinking about the opposite direction, which is the one I actually find harder.</p>