omission quotes

The art of drawing is the art of omission.

- Max Liebermann
Quoted in Paul Klee On Modern  Art (1979).

Failure to examine the throat is a glaring sin of omission, especially in children.One finger in thethroat and one in the rectum makes a good diagnostician.

- Sir William Osler
Collected in W B Bean (ed) Sir William Osler:  Aphorisms from His Bedside Teachings and Writings (1950).