My method is subtraction. I use erasers to make the images in my paintings. You really have to see it to fully… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I meet a man with a thousand dollars and leave him with two; that's the meaning of subtraction. — Mae West Copy Share Image
In an ideal world, social responsibility would be a prerequisite for design, and designers would vow to produce beautiful, useful, positive, responsible,… — Paola Antonelli Copy Share Image
He wondered how he could ever have thought of the planets, even of the Earth, as islands of life and reality floating… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction. — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
A German merchant of the fifteenth century asked an eminent professor where he should send his son for a good business education.… — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
The Difference Engine can in reality (as has been already partly explained) do nothing but add; and any other processes, not excepting… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
At nineteen, it seems to me, one has a right to be arrogant; time has usually not begun its stealthy and rotten… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
"She can't do sums a bit!" the Queens said together, with great emphasis. "Can you do sums?" Alice said, turning suddenly on… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
The external view [of agency] forces itself on us at the same time that we resist it. One way this occurs is… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication. — Bess Streeter Aldrich Copy Share Image
we middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of… — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
Faith is a talent, and it goes the way of all your talents. Getting old is the subtraction of your powers. Which… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
If the unusual never happened there would be no difference in people and then there wouldn't be any fun in life. The… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
The going away of friends does not make the remainder more precious. It takes so much from them as there was a… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Contentment is not by addition but by subtraction: seeking to add a thing will not bring contentment. Instead, subtracting from your desires… — Jeremiah Burroughs Copy Share Image
“If the past was the age of adding to one's mind, now is the age of subtracting what is in his mind.… — Woo Myung Copy Share Image