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The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take read more
The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.
No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of read more
No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.
If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
Some of us (perfectionists, especially) fuss so much over making the 'right' choice, but in life, all that's really needed read more
Some of us (perfectionists, especially) fuss so much over making the 'right' choice, but in life, all that's really needed is to make any' good' choice, believe in it, go through with it, and accept the consequences.
It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it read more
It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.
