Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it. – James Stephens
Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue. – Benjamin Haydon
The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell. – Ben Okri
I grew up in the theatre. It’s where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection. – Aaron Sorkin
Every time you write a song, you’re looking for some sort of perfection, and you never quite reach it. You’re always looking for that extra missing piece. – Alex Turner
In my work I think what drives me is perfection. I’m a chronically unsatisfied guy. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
You can’t make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can’t make a perfect painting. – Agnes Martin
It’s more about going to a place inside of me as a woman who knows that I’m never going to have perfection. And that I deserve to be healthy and feel healthy. – Carnie Wilson
But democracy isn’t a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance. – Antonio Tabucchi
By creating so many illusory images of physical perfection, whether on store aisles or storefront ads, magazine covers or TV shows, we speak more to the profit margins of companies than the self-esteem of today’s girls. – Adora Svitak
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. – Adam Smith
I’m in total awe of the technique of great film people. Because if you get your emotional life up to perfection by miracle on Take One, you better have a technique to keep doing it again and again and again. – Ali MacGraw
In the beginning I pushed toward perfection, but it takes time to get to certain places. – Alexander Wang
To me, searching for perfection isn’t anywhere near as interesting as trying to find your own voice. – Charlie Trotter
There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking. – Bliss Carman
The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder. – Anthony Trollope
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost. – Adam Clarke
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age. – Albert Einstein
I’m not trying to achieve perfection. I don’t like this forced control people have over work. – Billy Childish