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Letter "P" » perfection
«Art knows no limit, and the artists will never achieve perfection.»
«Falling short of perfection is a process that just never stops.»
«If you chase perfection, you often catch excellence.»
«A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Author,
Pilot,
Writer)
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Keywords:
achieved,
ADD,
add on,
add up,
away,
designer,
designers,
knows,
left,
perfection,
take away,
There Is Nothing,
There Is Nothing Left
«A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.»
Author: Albert Einstein
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Physicist)
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Keywords:
aims,
confusion,
in the main,
main,
means,
perfection,
problem,
seems,
take aim,
The Problem of the,
to be
«In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty /he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world /alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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Critic,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
alas,
all too,
believes,
bestowed,
bestowing,
cases,
filled,
forgets,
perfection,
select,
Selecting,
selects,
sets,
standard,
The Standard,
worships
«It is through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; through Art and Art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence»
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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About:
Art
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Keywords:
actual,
art,
existence,
from the,
perfection,
perils,
realize,
shield,
shielded,
shielding,
sordid,
The Perils of
«It is through Art, and through Art only, that we can realise our perfection.»
«All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one.»
Author: William Shakespeare
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Dramatist,
Playwright,
Poet)
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About:
Love
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Keywords:
discharged,
discharges,
discharging,
less than,
lovers,
perfection,
perform,
performance,
reserve,
reserves,
reserving,
swear,
swears,
swear in,
ten,
tenth,
tenth part,
vowing
«All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.»
Author: William Faulkner
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Novelist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
all of,
All of Us,
basis,
failed,
impossible,
match,
matching,
perfection,
rate,
rating,
So I,
splendid