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Quotes About Perfection

Craftsmanship names an enduring, basic human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own sake.
~ Richard Sennett
Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
~ Sam Abell
I have this desire to keep improving, so I find fault.
~ Heston Blumenthal
Some of us must wait for the best human gifts until we come to heavenly places. Our natural desire for musical utterance is perhaps a prophecy that in a perfect world we shall all know how to sing.
~ Lucy Larcom
The retouching is excessive. I do not look like that and more importantly, I don't desire to look like that.
~ Kate Winslet
Your desire for perfection is the cause of anger. Leave room for imperfection. Perfection in action is almost impossible.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
I made you, dear, and all I make is perfect. Please come close, for I desire you.
~ Teresa of Avila
The desire to write perfectly of beautiful happenings is, as the saying runs, old as the hills — and as immortal.
~ James Branch Cabell
The content of the ideal is a desire to return to the perfection of an imaginary past.
~ Johan Huizinga
Perfection never exists in reality, but only in our dreams.
~ Rudolf Dreikurs
The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.
~ Plato
Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.
~ Swami Vivekananda
All I know that whatever I do will be excellent work.
~ Sherlyn Chopra
For a film to be excellent, everybody working on it must also be excellent.
~ Zhao Wei
There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.
~ Marat Safin
Bayern exists only to win, but to win in style, too. Winning 2-1 is not enough. We have to win 5-0.
~ Toni Kroos
I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for Lassie.
~ Edith Head
All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left.
~ Cecil Beaton
I would say my legs would be my strength. I think I have the perfect legs.
~ Krystle D'Souza
I don't have a problem with letting go of an album once I know I've pretty much done the best that I can.
~ Bill Ward
Eyeliner is a lifelong thing. You'll never get it perfect.
~ Weyes Blood
Jerome Robbins, to me, is the genius of a lifetime.
~ Chita Rivera
I worked on perfect beauty for a lifetime.
~ Amanda Lepore