Quotes About Perfection

Successful design is not the achievement of perfection but the minimization and accommodation of imperfection.

There's such a thing as being a little too perfect - a little too shiny. I know I prefer things that have room to breathe and give you a story, a world, in which you have the room to move around.

There's a difference between a pop star and an artist. Pop stars have to be perfect all the time; an artist is allowed, on occasion, to suck. And I put myself in that category because I sometimes suck. I'm not trying to please the masses. It's not going to happen, so I don't try.

Paulina Porizkova

I go eat a sandwich for lunch and have a milk shake and miss going to the gym for 10 days, and somebody snaps a picture of me on the beach, and all of a sudden, I've lost it. Why do I need to be perfect all the time?

After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect.

People don't want to suffer. They want to sound good immediately, and this is one of the biggest problems in the world.

I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have to be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws.

I think anyone can bake, but I don't think I can bake well. I sort of feel like baking is just, like, chocolate and butter and sugar, and that is always nice, so I think anyone can bake, you can put those things together, and it will come out all right. The next level of that, I definitely can't do.

A good typeface is like a well-crafted English or Italian suit: it always looks perfect.

Authenticity has never been Barbie's strong suit.

I have tried a lot... to be perfect all the time. It doesn't suit me. It doesn't make me happy and I do things that make me happy.

Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.

Sunny Leone is beautiful and extremely hot. When I met her for the first time, I found her flawless.

His name is Michael Jackson, not Super Michael Jackson. He makes mistakes just like all of us.

Around everything that is perfected, the unfinished ascends and intensifies.

God... sat down for a moment when the dog was finished in order to watch it... and to know that it was good, that nothing was lacking, that it could not have been made better.

Une rose seule, c'est toutes les roses et celle-ci: l'irremplaçable, le parfait, le souple vocable encadré par le texte des choses. Comment jamais dire sans elle ce que furent nos espérances, et les tendres intermittences, dans la partance continuelle.

just like the moon, life surely has a side that is perpetually turned away from us and which is not its opposite but adds to its perfection and completeness, to the truly intact and full sphere of being.

I want to mirror your image in its fullest perfection. Never be blind or too old to uphold your weighty wavering reflection

Already he's learned to repress not only his emotions but his humanity. He's invisible, a walking personification of the Negative, the most perfect achievement of your dreams, sir! The mechanical man!

He's invisible, a walking personification of the Negative, the most perfect achievement of your dreams, sir! The mechanical man!

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.