Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.
Contentment is not by addition but by subtraction: seeking to add a thing will not bring contentment. Instead, subtracting from your desires until you are satisfied only with Christ brings contentment.
When it comes time to make the scenes concrete and shoot them, I want the freedom for it to exist which means adding, subtracting or modifying.
Writing a poem is always a process of subtracting: you start with all of language available to you, and you choose a smaller field.
Decorating is like math, a game of adding and subtracting.
They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.