Quotes About Imperfection

I rather like a certain clumsiness in a work of art.

I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.

God doesn't work through us because we're flawless; rather, He works through us in spite of our imperfections.

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.

No one is perfect. I know there is stuff that I need to work on, and not just one thing, but my game overall. Everything can get better.

He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.

One wants one's work to be the world, but of course it's never the world. The work is in the world; it never contains the whole thing.

What we have to be judged by is the work we try to do. It's public service, not perfect service.

Sometimes you're just regular. Sometimes you wake up, and your breath stinks like everybody else, and you had a bad hair day.

Conservatives don't need to look for 'hope' in a person because people are imperfect. Conservatives put their stock in the ideology ushered forth by our Founding Fathers, the ideals that keep us free men.

These 'mistakes' occur in my books for a reason. I have an agenda: I'm secretly trying to inspire kids to create their own stories and comics, and I don't want them to feel stifled by 'perfectionism.'

From a storytelling perspective, perfection is death.

I do think that sometimes, especially coming into this going straight from activism to being a candidate or to being a person who potentially, you know, looks like will be holding political office soon, I think we expect our politicians to be perfect and fully formed and on point on every single issue.

I am not perfect, but my faith keeps me as close to the straight and narrow as possible.

I can't draw a straight line.

I love my job. But I like to have fun at work. So I don't get finicky if one strand of hair is standing out in a shot. I don't get finicky about broken nails. I don't let small things affect me. I'm not perfect. Nobody is. There's no fun in being perfect. I enjoy my work; there's no pressure on me.

I didn't think I could be my imperfect self. I pretended I was Marcia, so I was always playing this role. I became her, but yet I wasn't. It's strange.

You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.

On movies, you have a lot of stylists that get things too pretty. Everything gets steamed and ironed. It's just not the way we really behave.

I am not perfect, far from it, but there is no furnace of death inside me.

We all know what a snooze perfection can be.

The Lord works through deeply flawed people, since He made so few of the other kind.

Most of us would rather claim to have always been perfect that admit how much we have grown.

Observing that his penis had a mind of its own — "sometimes it refuses to act when the mind wills, while often it acts against his will" — led Augustine to theorize that we were born flawed.