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"Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle."
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"The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light."
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"Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me."
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"An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's."
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"It's all about perfection, isn't it?"
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"Perfection is a paradigm meant to keep us striving and learning and growing. Like a wondrous sunset, perfection may be beyond our reach, but it is within our view and well worth seeking after."
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"Perfect is the enemy of good."
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"Clinging to our ideas of perfection isolates us from life and is a barrier."
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"Perfection is ordinary, imperfection is beauty."
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"After all these months, lying there, unable to move a leg or a foot " how could he find perfection in such an average day?Then I realized that was the whole point."
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"Perfection is born of imperfection."
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"Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture."
Painting
"I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."
Hope
"The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone."
Thought
"What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?"
Appreciation
"If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes."
Beauty
"Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him."
Love
"I live and love in God's peculiar light."
Love
"I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible."
Life
"The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has."
Thought
"I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived."
Life
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