#perfection

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

#completely #different #form #formed #found

There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses. ↗

— Josef Skvorecky

#book #even #every #everyone #exception

Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it. ↗

— James Stephens

#finality #lumps #nothing #perfect #perfection

Before I start directing a show, I try to spend a few weeks hanging around the set, getting to know the crew and talking to the actors about how they like to work. Who is fussy? Who is left-handed? Who wants to go home early, and who is the perfectionist? ↗

— Eric Stoltz

#around #before #crew #directing #early

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. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#any #artist #been #called #details

The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#agile #animal #boot #europe #general

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#easier #imperfection #served #small #tolerate

It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#doubt #intellectuals #job #perfection #writers

To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness. ↗

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

#another #good #good action #goodness #make

The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the imperfections of the instrument. There's no such thing as a perfect clarinet, never was and never will be. ↗

— Jack Brymer

#clarinet #imperfections #instrument #never #overcome