229 quotes found
“Every great painting includes hundreds of imperfect brushstrokes" Ray White”
“Perfection belongs to narrated events, not to those we live.”
“There is a moment when time stops, when the air grows still, when you enter a state of nothingness, a state of purity and perfection. That is the moment to strive for.”
“Perfection is something everyone strives for, but it’s elusive and may be an illusion.”
“The universe has no mind and that’s why it can never reach perfection! Perfection is the art of meticulous high-mind!”
“But in the machine of today we forget that motors are whirring: the motor, finally, has come to fulfill its function, which is to whirr as a heart beats - and we give no thought to the beating of o...”
“When did creating a flawless facade become a more vital goal than learning to love the person who lives inside your skin?”
“Perfection never exists in reality but only in our dreams.”
“If you're looking for perfection look in the mirror. If you find it there expect it elsewhere.”
“A perfect poem is impossible. Once it has been written the world would end.”
“What after all is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.”
“You're only human you're supposed to make mistakes.”
“Truth is immortal error is mortal.”
“I like a man with faults especially when he knows it. To err is human- I'm uncomfortable around gods.”
“If the best man's faults were written on his forehead it would make him pull his hat over his eyes.”
“Almost anything carried to its logical extreme becomes depressing if not carcinogenic.”
“When everything has to be right something isn't.”
“The more a human being feels himself a self tries to intensify this self and reach a never-attainable perfection the more drastically he steps out of the center of being.”
“I only have to stop the puck not beat it to death.”
“When we do the best that we can we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or in the life of another.”
