Quotes About Perfection

Surely the novel should be a form of art - but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection of art, but the imperfection of nature.

Such is the never-failing beauty and accuracy of language, the most perfect art in the world; the chisel of a thousand years retouches it.

Cruelty, as a fine art, has attained its perfect flower in the trained-animal world.

I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. I really like what that suggests. But I'm of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially in art.

The universe has no mind and that's why it can never reach perfection! Perfection is the art of meticulous high-mind!

Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. Frigidaires are perfect. Beauty limps. My frigidaire has had to be replaced.

It's kind of a crazy art form, movies, in that you have to get it right the day you do it, generally.

The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art.

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty........ but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself.She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

art is never finished, only abandoned

Artists strive for perfection. But what they often fail to see is that the beauty, the humanity, lies within the flaws.

When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said "It is easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David."

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

In each painting, I think, it's as if God were giving up on finishing the world.

When I'm passionate about something I strive for excellence, judging whether or not I achieved it is up to the audience.

Perfection in art is a crime against humanity. Perfect humanity in crime is art

An excellent photograph is the one which has excellently captured an excellent moment!

It seems shelving is an art, like everything else. I decide to do it exceptionally well.

Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything.

Get hold of the main thing: That the world and the self are one and perfect. Only your attitude is faulty and needs readjustment.

If you would perfect your body, guard your mind.

I never wanted to settle for 'good enough.' I wanted 'great' or nothing.

Outside the walls of the Circle, all was noise and struggle, failure and filth. But here, all had been perfected. The best people had made the best systems and the best systems had reaped funds, unlimited funds