Perfection Quotes

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When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas and Forms, which… — Arthur Koestler
The mind, the soul, becomes ennobled by the endeavour to create something perfect, for God is perfection, and whoever strives after perfection is striving for… — Michelangelo
An unhappy gentleman, resolving to wed nothing short of perfection, keeps his heart and hand till both get so old and withered that no tolerable… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives. — Georges Braque
To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species. — Norman Cousins
A new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and… — Marge Piercy
The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in… — Edmund Burke
There is something so perfect about the mountains and the lake and the trees... sometimes I want to tear it all to pieces. — Georgia O'Keeffe
Artists who approach perfection do not have many ideas. — Odilon Redon
I call 'crystallization' that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events. — Stendhal
The more perfect the approximation to truth, the more perfect is art. — Maria Montessori
The best pictures are always those one dreams of when one is smoking a pipe in bed, but which never get done. But still one… — Vincent Van Gogh
for Christ's sake, were the mountains blue, then chuck on some blue and don't go telling me that it was a blue a bit like… — Paul Gauguin
The most basic inherent constraint is that neither time nor wisdom are free goods available in unlimited quantity. This means that in social processes, as… — Thomas Sowell
At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from… — John Berger
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… — Claude Monet
I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect. — Tennessee Williams
A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development. — Hugh Kingsmill
It's not about perfection; it's about the joy of striving. — Thomas Keller
And what do I mean by the word 'perfection'? That I shall not try to explain but only say, 'Perfection makes me laugh.' Not cynically,… — Susan Sontag
When something has been perfect, there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it. — Edna O'Brien
The ocean does not require that the waves are still to be more ocean-like. — Mooji
It becomes possible to admit that plainness may coexist with nobility of nature, and fine features with baseness; and yet to hold that mental and… — Herbert Spencer
Art in its perfection is not ostentatious; it lies hid and works its effect, itself unseen. — Joshua Reynolds
We Christians joyfully recognize the religious values we have in common with Islam. I would like to repeat what I said to young Muslims some… — Pope John Paul II

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