Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.
Kevyn Aucoin

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
Vince Lombardi

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

Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
Emile Zola

Perfection is the child of time.
Joseph Hall

Perfection itself is imperfection.
Vladimir Horowitz

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
Albert Einstein

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.
C. Northcote Parkinson

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.
Antonio Tabucchi

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.
Albert Pike

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Aristotle

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
Martha Graham

Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?
Richard Brautigan

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.
Edward Coke

Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice.
James Cash Penney

So I had to just kind of go back to the hotel, take a shower, sit quiet, dig down deep, warm up, and allow myself to move into some kind of zone. And then I remembered that a lot of my favorite musical moments are not about perfection.
Kathy Mattea

So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less.
Douglas Sirk