1,286 Quotes About Perfection

The pursuit of beauty. The word is hard to articulate. As soon as you open your mouth, it flies off, like a bird of paradise. Beauty can not be caught, but we are obliged to reach for it. Beauty is not neutral; pursuing it is a political act. Building is a grand act, a gesture toward peace, the opposite of destruction.

There is no logical necessity for the conclusion that the change cannot begin at all because its perfection is not immediately possible.

Perfection is fragile; interacting with something that seems perfect puts it in peril.

Clinging to our ideas of perfection isolates us from life and is a barrier.

There would still remain the never-resting mind,So that one would want to escape, come backTo what had been so long composed.The imperfect is our paradise.Note that, in this bitterness, delight,Since the imperfect is so hot in us,Lies in flawed words and stubborn sounds.

Perfection seems sterile; it is final, no mystery in it; it's a product of an assembly line.

I used to see the flaw in every diamond. Now stones astound me with their perfection.

Im not looking for perfection, just perfect flaws.

... food is not simply organic fuel to keep body and soul together, it is a perishable art that must be savoured at the peak of perfection.