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Perfection

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I beat myself up every day, without so much as a scratch. To accomplish the perfect perfection, a little imperfection helps. It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others. Perfection is not just about control. It's also about letting go.

Surprise yourself so you can surprise the audience. Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life. Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time. Perfection cannot be defined or seen; it can only be found in your heart. Perfection is a road, not a destination.

Every time I live, I get an education. Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough? To demand perfection is a sure way to be disappointed in everybody, for you will be bound to think ill of others.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. The condition of perfection is idleness: Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you do, and fix it along the way If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. If you chase perfection, you often catch excellence. Perfection doesn't exist in anyone.

I am going for a level of perfection that is only mine Most of the pleasure is in getting the last little piece perfect. Perfection is what we do. We go from work to work, thought to thought. And it's the experience of going from work to work that is the content of the work. Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. Light — dews — breezes — bloom — and freshness; not one of which Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

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The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare. Art lives in the marrying of human perception and the imperfect human touch. I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men. There is no such thing as perfection in art. There is only the continued pursuit of passion. The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.

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Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of making cripples and monsters, such as all pictures and statues are. Nothing less than the creation of man and nature is its end. By definition, perfection is merely an absence of error. It is often our own imperfection which makes us reprove the imperfection of others; a sharp-sighted self-love of others. Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

If you chase perfection, you often catch excellence. Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity. A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practice perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice. Good - make them blue and that's enough! Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

Perfectionism is just fear in fancy shoes and a mink coat.

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Rate the intensive above the extensive. The perfect does not lie in quantity, but in quality. Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired. This time, at last, it is the real, the unmistakable thing, simple - passionate - perfect Perfection doesn't exist in anyone.

Striving for perfection in any part of our lives is a recipe for failure, since it can never be attained. What at night had been perfect and ideal was by day the more or less defective real. It is the imperfections in life that make it amusing and lovable. The imperfections of the world and its people add interest, and invoke curiosity, and humor. How boring would a perfect life be? Man is sadly retarded by allowable imperfections. Forget perfection; only God is perfect. You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.

If you want me to play only the notes without any specific color dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill. Be careful, perfection can make persons and work pass out of sight. It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached. The world is perfect.

As you question your mind, this becomes more and more obvious. We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. It's not about perfection; it's about the joy of striving. People with disabilities still constitute a small minority. Yet the Beautiful People — the slender, fair and perfect ones — form a minority that may be even smaller. Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor. No one is perfect. It's not interesting to be perfect. And what is so rare as a day in June? There is hope in honest error; none in the icy perfections of the mere stylist.

I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning its head. But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it. Exactitude is not truth. The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. I know well enough in advance that you'll find my paintings perfect. I know that if they are exhibited they'll be a great success, but I couldn't be more indifferent to it since I know they are bad, I'm certain of it. The more perfect the approximation to truth, the more perfect is art. The ocean does not require that the waves are still to be more ocean-like.

I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle In great art, this conflict is hidden, it is unresolved. All that is bursting with energy is disturbing — not perfect. Who does something, then he or she must do it precisely! All I plead with you is this: There is something so perfect about the mountains and the lake and the trees Shall I throw away the materials and time paying homage to the perfectionist — knowing that nothing is ever perfect and also knowing that redoing yesterday is not always proceeding to tomorrow's discovery?

What an eternal debate! Letting go of the need for perfection releases a burst of energy - and guess what - you may accidentally do a good job. The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection. The perfectionist is another name for someone who is getting ready to become mad. We adore perfection because we can't have it; it would disgust us if we had it.

Quotes about Perfection

Perfect is inhuman, because human is imperfect. Be content with nothing less than perfection. It's always necessary to seek for perfection. Obviously, for us, this word no longer has the same meaning. To me, it means: You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally. It is absurd to look for perfection. Everything has to be perfect in order not to break the spell. Perfection is terrible; it cannot have children.

Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine I have no faith in human perfectability.

I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was years ago. Perfectionism is slow death. Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.

The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch. A beautiful thing is never perfect. Were I to await perfection, my book would never be finished. Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state. The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. I wanted a perfect ending Now, I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

Artists who approach perfection do not have many ideas. When I record an album I'm trying to get as close as possible to that perfect moment. Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art.

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Irregularity is the basis of all art. One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of irregularity. Art in its perfection is not ostentatious; it lies hid and works its effect, itself unseen. Since natural objects, due to the imperfection of their material, are full of defects, it is the unique aim of painting to bring them back to their first state, as they were when made by the immortal creator. One senses, in all autobiography, a straining toward perfection, perfection of a kind that connects the individual with a cosmic pattern which, because it is perfect in itself, verifies that individuals own potential perfection.

I strive for perfection, but seldom reach it. Which, I believe, is the way for an artist to work. The day I reach perfection is the day I will never paint again. My father, a wise and artistic man, once told me, 'Nothing in this world is perfect - the trick is not to reach perfection, but to get so close to perfect that no one can tell the difference. There is no worse sickness for the soul, O you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection. The heart and eyes must bleed a lot before self-complacency falls away.

No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art. It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

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