Mmmm...
This thread is very close to an answer and it's looking like, "Definitely not in all cases."
Don't know if you can revive it, Michael...

"Perfection is not when there is more to add, but when there is no more to take away." Antoine De Saint-Exupery
"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone." Henry David Thoreau
"Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed." Vida D Scudder