The perfection of our union especially our commitment to equality of opportunity has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said 'In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.'

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add but when there is nothing left to take away.

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect change is the way to perfect them.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for perfection is God's business.

The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love that of the other's bed where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.

I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.

In LA where I live it's all about perfectionism. Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.

I don't want to be perfect but I do want to be a role model. My mom always tells me that imperfections equal beauty. All of us are imperfect.

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life struggle intensity.

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty the contemplation of mystery or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

Imperfection is beauty madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.

If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.

I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more just hoping for an occasional inspiration.

It is in this power of saying everything and yet saying nothing too plainly that the perfection of art consists.

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

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

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.