All Quotes

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