Joy is the transition of man from a less to a greater perfection.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
It seems that perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.
The perfect does not lie in quantity but in quality.
Do not wait to be perfect to start something good.
One of the basic rules of the Universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.
The greatest skill in any deed consists in the sure mastery with which it is executed.
Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness.
It is through their completeness that souls are happy.
An action is the perfection and publication of thought.
I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.
To improve is to change to be perfect is to change often.
Perfection is attained by slow degrees it requires the hand of time.
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.
