Friday 29 May 2009

Less Is More


Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away....
Antoine de St. Exupery, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939
Might be old news, but I'd not heard it before. Nice, eh? It could sum up the philosophy of so much that's cool about biking - be it dirt trackers, speedway bikes, bobbers, chops... Mick Phillips

photo via Grail at Knuckle Busters Inc

4 comments:

KrookStreetRacing said...

The expression "Less is more" is actually from a poem from 1855 by Robert Browning. And quite pretty it is too.

It was only later that Mies, Gropius, Fuller and the other modernists started using the phrase.

/D

Sideburn Magazine said...

Well I never. Thank you KSR. Maybe we should start a little poetry corner in SB.
BP

Anonymous said...

YEAH POETRY CORNER...... WHAT RYMES WIV "FLATTRACK".....

originalracingsnake said...

Errr, "Heartattak"?