#perfection

Perfection: a collection of a variety of pieces that, when viewed and felt individually, are difficult and confusing; but when brought together as one, create a perfect picture. Symphony, harmony, serenity. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#harmony #perfection #perfection-and-confusion #serenity #symphony

I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#perfection #utopia #boredom

Did you ever get the feeling that everything was too perfect? Like the moment was so good that something had to be wrong? Kind of like the way a fish sees that bright, shiny lure just before it chomps down and gets hauled out of water to become someone's lunch. ↗

— Neal Shusterman

#metaphor #perfect #perfectionism #simile #suspicion

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#communicate #concealed #critic #discover #dwell

Lucy is such a perfectionist. ↗

— Desi Arnaz

#perfectionist #such

Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that. Glenn Gould said that with a recording he wanted to make perfect versions of pieces. ↗

— John Abercrombie

#classical #eight #glenn #make #musicians

And I find perfect beauty excessively boring, don't you? ↗

— Gail Carriger

#perfection #beauty

I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection. ↗

— Andrew Vachss

#cannot #i #perfection #pursuit

If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself. ↗

— Josh Billings

#enjoy #happen #himself #immediately #man

I'm a perfectionist. I need to be needed. I need to do things for a man. But I don't need to do them as much, these days. ↗