Pleasure in the job gives perfection in the work.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
Blessed is the famous flaw that saves us from the abominable perfection
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Perfection belongs to narrated events, not to those we live.
To love truth for truth’s sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.
Perfection has one grave defect. It is apt to be dull.
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.
The primary purpose of a concert is not perfection in performance but communication.
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.”
Perfection is terrible; it cannot have children.
If I did not care, I would not dare, chart your imperfections.
My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.
I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.
Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest