Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.
‐‐ Louis Auchincloss
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
‐‐ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book.
‐‐ Laurell K. Hamilton
Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.
‐‐ Voltaire
Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.
‐‐ Kevyn Aucoin
Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
‐‐ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
‐‐ Owen Feltham
Perfection is impossible; just strive to do your best.
‐‐ Angela Watson
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
‐‐ Vince Lombardi
Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.
‐‐ Douglas Horton
Perfection is really boring!
‐‐ Erin Heatherton
Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
‐‐ Emile Zola
Perfection is terrible; it cannot have children.
‐‐ Sylvia Plath
Perfection is the child of time.
‐‐ Joseph Hall
Perfection is worth striving for, even if it is ultimately unattainable in this life.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin
Perfection itself is imperfection.
‐‐ Vladimir Horowitz
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
‐‐ Thomas Aquinas
Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.
‐‐ C. Northcote Parkinson
Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.
‐‐ Antonio Tabucchi
'Perfection' to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, 'I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.' I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That's perfection.
‐‐ Drake
Perfection would be something that you see in 'Architectural Digest.'
‐‐ Jill Soloway
Perfectionism attaches to what is valued in the culture.
‐‐ Gloria Steinem
Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero.
‐‐ David D. Burns
Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.
‐‐ Julia Cameron
Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth; it's a shield.
‐‐ Brene Brown
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.
‐‐ Anne Lamott
Perfectionism kills art. I find that if I criticise myself, it spoils the fun. You can get paralysed by analysis - it takes all the playfulness away.
‐‐ Geri Halliwell
Perfectionist? That's not something I am.
‐‐ Mac DeMarco
Perfectionists are their own devils.
‐‐ Jack Kirby
Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.
‐‐ Joyce Meyer
Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.
‐‐ Emily Carr
Performa's founder and prime mover, Roselee Goldberg, has great instincts for which artists might collaborate well together.
‐‐ Roberta Smith
Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting.
‐‐ Jack Bowman
Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with conventional theater. This is due to the usually small audience.
‐‐ Jack Bowman
Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words.
‐‐ Laurie Anderson
Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one line thing. And it's more casual but more interesting.
‐‐ Yoko Ono
Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity.
‐‐ Jack Bowman
Performance capture, for me, is finding the essence of a performance.
‐‐ Andy Serkis
Performance capture is a technology, not a genre; it's just another way of recording an actor's performance.
‐‐ Andy Serkis
Performance capture is a tool that young actors will need in the next 10, 20 years. It's on the increase, as you say. It's not going away.
‐‐ Andy Serkis
Performance-enhancing drugs are an illusion. I wish I had never gotten involved with steroids. It was wrong. It was stupid.
‐‐ Mark McGwire
'Performance' gave me doubts about my way of life. Before that, I had been completely involved in the more bawdy side of the film business. But after that, everything changed.
‐‐ James Fox
Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for.
‐‐ Marina Abramovic
Performance is always something that will be a part of my career.
‐‐ Robin Thede
Performance is hard. I know this. I really enjoy it, but I have bombed, I have fluffed, and I have said the wrong thing.
‐‐ Nick Harkaway
Performance is something we all strive to be better at. I'm no different than that. Who wants to look bad?
‐‐ Kevin Garnett
Performance is there, and if you are not there in that moment it happened, it just stays in the memory. It's so immaterial and something this immaterial is very difficult to collect. Its difficult to buy, its how we can buy immaterial art.
‐‐ Marina Abramovic
Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.
‐‐ Harold S. Geneen
Performance-wise, you really need to be down in the trenches; you need to do the hard work, for a lot of reasons: To build yourself as a performer, to get a sense of the audience, to work hard and to wonder, 'Do I really want to do this?'
‐‐ Joan Jett