The finest works of art are precious among other reasons because they make it possible for us to know if only imperfectly and for a little while what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

It is through art and through art only that we can realise our perfection.

To an engineer good enough means perfect. With an artist there's no such thing as perfect.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

I've been called many names like perfectionist difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.

Trifles make perfection and perfection is no trifle.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

I loved logic math computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.

It seems a fantastic paradox but it is nevertheless a most important truth that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

Usher is amazing. He's perfection to me as a performer. He gets down.

Try as hard as we may for perfection the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

I auditioned for 'Girls' the fall after I graduated from Yale. The show has been amazing - as close to perfect as it gets!

The perfect life would be to have an amazing part every year and to spend all my free time to just write.

The thing that is really hard and really amazing is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

I like to have a massage therapist come to my house get a massage take a bath go to bed. That's a perfect night alone for me.

He alone loves the Creator perfectly who manifests a pure love for his neighbor.

Photography alone of the arts seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.

While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain guilt and loneliness of our present life.

'The Christmas Song ' by Nat King Cole is not only a masterful performance to me it just sounds like the holidays. I've never sung it because Nat's version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone.