#perfection

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature. ↗

— Bishop Robert South

#activity #drawing #forth #highest #man

There is a kind of beauty in imperfection. ↗

— Conrad Hall

#imperfection #kind

But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#democracy #improved #means #perfection #state

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. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#contemplation #day #days #fatal #human

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. ↗

— Agnes Martin

#awareness #beauty #eye #i #i think

Ruskin says that anyone who expects perfection from a work of art knows nothing of works of art. This is an appealing sentence that, so far as I can see, is not true about a few pictures and statues and pieces of music, short stories and short poems. Whether or not you expect perfection from them, you get it; at least, there is nothing in them that you would want changed. But what Ruskin says is true about novels: anyone who expects perfection from even the greatest novel knows nothing of novels. ↗

— Randall Jarrell

#novels #perfection #art

To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength. ↗

— Criss Jami

#confronting #courage #honesty #humble #humility

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

#anything #attained #away #been #body

We have all been expelled from the Garden, but the ones who suffer most in exile are those who are still permitted to dream of perfection. ↗

— Stanley Kunitz

#dreams

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

— Hannah Arendt

#escape #go #involved #living #must