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"We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection."
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"It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection."

"An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's."

"Perfect, faultless, in ruins, yes, but perfect,nevertheless."

"The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light."

"Perfection is born of imperfection."

"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."

"Drop all ideas of becoming someone; you are already perfect."

"Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill."

"Even if you have achieved everything, there is Perfection, still left to be achieved."
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"As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents."

"I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life."

"If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't."

"So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one."

"I've had it all my life and when it can time for me to start a family, I was quite anxious to do so."

"In my case, the body of work stands for itself... I think my work has been representative of me as a man."
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