Quotes About Perfection

I think that everyone in one way or another has some sort of body issue. There's something about themselves physically that they're not happy with, that they're ashamed of, that they keep constantly trying to change.

As a model, part of my job is to be critiqued physically.

I doubt Picasso ever painted a picture in an hour, he took his time, looked at every detail and made sure it was perfect.

And since discriminating fans can pick and choose exactly what they want to buy, artists and their labels are more conscious than they've ever been of making sure that every song on a new album is as good as can be.

I'm very picky; I'm never happy with anything. It's so hard to give the record away and accept that you're done.

Sometimes, if I see a picture and I can make it a bit better, then I will, like everyone else does. I've been Photoshopped in every picture since I started modelling.

If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed.

It is not important to make many pictures but that I have one picture right.

I don't know why my pictures come out looking so good. I just don't get it.

I know I play into that image out there, but I try to say it is a fantasy. I look at my own pictures and wish I could look like that. There are probably five people in this whole entire world who actually look like that.

Even the duster in my house has to be beautiful; no old piece of cloth will ever be used in its place.

Every year, there is a new diet that all the celebs or housewives are trying. We all want the perfect diet or the perfect pill. If we surveyed a million women, and they could choose to learn the truth about God or the foolproof diet, I guarantee more women would pick the miracle diet over the miracle of life.

Every night that I put my head on the pillow, I go to sleep knowing that I can do more. I'm working toward perfection. I'm trying to be the best ever.

On 'Masters of Sex,' especially in the pilot, everybody was showing up word-perfect, and you're expected to show up word-perfect.

For me, my continuous struggle with every project is, "Is it better than 'Pink?'"

Every scene in 'Ganga Jamuna' has been spellbinding for me. I can see the film any number of times and still not be able to pinpoint a scene and say 'This is the best scene!' Every scene is perfect.

When I'm making the music, I feel like everything I throw out has to work. It counts. Because if you don't have people turning they neck all the way around to see what it is, it ain't stick on the wall.

You always wanna make the best record you ever made, and if I feel like I didn't do that, I wouldn't put it out.

As much as I don't want to admit it, my fans are the only ones that can hurt my feelings when they're not pleased with what I'm presenting. I want it to be perfect for them. I want them to have a different sense of pride in my music.

I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form.

When God created you, He went to great lengths to make you exactly the way He wanted you to be. You are His ultimate work of art.

I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right.

I wanted nothing else than to make the object as perfect as possible.

I don't believe in perfection. I don't think there is such a thing. But the energy of wanting things to be great is a perfectionist energy.