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\nHere\u2019s a collection of my favorite quotes on perfection.
\n\u201cThey say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they\u2019d make up their minds.\u201d – Winston Churchill
\n\u201cPerfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.\u201d – Vince Lombardi
\n\u201cFix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.\u201d – William Ellery Channing
\n\u201cGreat sculptors and artists spend countless hours perfecting their talents. They don’t pick up a chisel or a brush and palette, expecting immediate perfection. They understand that they will make many errors as they learn, but they start with the basics, the key fundamentals first.\u201d – Joseph B. Wirthlin
\n\u201cPractice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.\u201d – Martha Graham
\n\u201cPerfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.\u201d – Voltaire
\n\u201cPerfection is the child of time.\u201d – Joseph Hall
\n\u201cPerfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.\u201d – Owen Feltham
\n\u201cIt is through art, and through art only, that we can realize our perfection.\u201d – Oscar Wilde
\n\u201cAn artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else\u2019s.\u201d – J. D. Salinger
\n\u201cWhen I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.\u201d – Agnes Martin
\n\u201cThe true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.\u201d – Michelangelo
\n\u201cThe perfection of art is to conceal art.\u201d – Quintilian
\n\u201cArtists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.\u201d – Gustave Flaubert
\n\u201cThe artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.\u201d – Eugene Delacroix
\n\u201cWhen you aim for perfection, you discover it’s a moving target.\u201d – George Fisher
\n\u201cThe greater the emphasis on perfection, the further it recedes\u201d – Haridas Chaudhuri
\n\u201cTrifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.\u201d – Michelangelo
\n\u201cThe gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.\u201d – Chinese proverb
\n\u201cA designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.\u201d – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
\n\u201cEvery particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.\u201d – Ralph Waldo Emerson
\n\u201cI hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.\u201d – Albrecht Durer
\n\u201cEverything is perfect in the universe \u2013 even your desire to improve it.\u201d – Wayne Dyer
\n\u201cPleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.\u201d – Aristotle
\n\u201cBut quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensable luxury, but a simple necessity.\u201d – Niklaus Wirth
\n\u201cPerfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.\u201d – Louis Auchincloss
\n\u201cPerfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.\u201d – W. Somerset Maugham
\n\u201cA lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they’re stuck in that safe place.\u201d – Dave Grohl
\n\u201cPerfect is the enemy of the good.\u201d – Voltaire
\n\u201cPerfection is terrible; it cannot have children.\u201d – Sylvia Plath
\n\u201cIf you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.\u201d \u2015 Leo Tolstoy
\n\u201cHave no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.\u201d – Salvador Dali
\n“Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.” \u2014 Confucius
\n\u201cThe man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.\u201d – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
\n\u201cThis is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.\u201d – Saint Augustine
\n\u201cPerfection itself is imperfection.\u201d – Vladimir Horowitz
\n\u201cThe world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.\u201d – Herman Hesse
\n\u201cIf everything is imperfect in this imperfect world, love is most perfect in its perfect imperfection.\u201d – Gunnar Bj\u00f6rnstrand
\n\u201cTrue love does not come by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.\u201d – Jason Jordan
\n\u201cThe thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.\u201d – Anna Quindlen
\n\u201cStrive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection.\u201d – Kim Collins
\n“Now that you’ve stopped being perfect you can be good.” – John Steinbeck
\nRead more in my Essential List Of Creativity Quotes.<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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