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“There is something so perfect about the mountains and the lake and the trees... sometimes I want to tear it all to pieces.”

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Book:Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

“Every culture, if its natural development is not too much affected by political restrictions, experiences a perpetual renewal of the formative urge, and out of that comes an ever growing diversity of creative activity. Every successful piece of work stirs the desire for greater perfection and deeper inspiration; each new form becomes the herald of new possibilities of development.”

Source: Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice

“Every time you write a song, you're looking for some sort of perfection, and you never quite reach it. You're always looking for that extra missing piece.”

Writing Song Pieces Missing Perfection Extras Never Quit Missing Piece

Author:Alex Turner

“She saw every personal religion as a pair of intersecting circles. . . . Probably perfection is reached when the area of the two outer crescents, added together, is exactly equal to that of the leaf-shaped piece in the middle. On paper there must be some neat mathematical formula for arriving at this; in life, none.”

Two Together Religion Women Saws Pieces Middle Equal Paper Areas Perfection Circles Mathematical Pairs Formulas Leafs Neat Arriving Crescent

Author:Jan Struther

“Perfection often creates such a flawless surface that there's no place for the audience to enter into a piece, while the idiosyncrasies of individual style are like windows into the singer's heart.”

Heart Individual Audience Pieces Style Perfection Window Surface Singers Flawless Idiosyncrasies Individual Style

Book:The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

Source: The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

“When we seek happiness through accumulation, either outside of ourselves-from other people, relationships, or material goods-or from our own self-development, we are missing the essential point. In either case we are trying to find completion. But according to Buddhism, such a strategy is doomed. Completion comes not from adding another piece to ourselves but from surrendering our ideas of perfection.”

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Author:Mark Epstein

“Hunger makes you restless. you dream about food - not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe-inspiring, the one piece of meat, the exact taste of buttery corn, tomatoes so ripe they split and sweeten the air, beans so crisp they snap between the teeth, gravy like mother's milk singing to your bloodstream.”

Source: Bastard Out of Carolina: A Novel

“I don't consider myself a musician who has achieved perfection and can't develop any further. But I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself. Take a musician like John Coltrane. He is a perfect musician, who can give expression to all the possibilities of his instrument. But he seems to have difficulty expressing original ideas on it. That is why he keeps looking for ideas in exotic places. At least I don't have that problem, because, like I say, I find my inspiration in myself.”

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Author:Thelonious Monk

“I am going for a level of perfection that is only mine... Most of the pleasure is in getting the last little piece perfect.”

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Author:Chuck Close