Quotes About Perfection

What's any artist, but the dregs of his work?

Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.

No great work of art is ever finished.

Consider the work of Calvary. A perfect work, perfect in every respect, perfect in every aspect

...what I try to do is a good bad picture. I work it out very carefully, and then I do something that looks as if it went wrong.

The anateur works until they get something right. The professional works until they can't go wrong.

It is only perfection in the foundations that can lead to mastery of the whole...'Talent is Work'

If you work with determination and with perfection, success will follow.

If the movie works, nobody notices the mistakes... If the movie doesn't work, the only thing people notice are mistakes.

Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.

What is an artist but a workman who is determined that, whatever else happens, his work shall be excellent?

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.

Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.

Christ's work needs no repetition. It is final because it is perfect.

If on your own or by the criticism of others you discover error in your work, correct it then and there; otherwise in exposing your work to the public, you will expose your error also.

If God had not made Sherry, how imperfect his work would have been.

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing

No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.

You should work at everything you do and try to perfect it as best you can.

Sometimes it's better to live through someone's work than the person themselves, and to realise that every human being is flawed, but through art they can be perfect.

I have some things that I've been workin' on, such as delivery, wordplay, breath control, just a lot of other things that artists work on, that the listener may not be listening for.