I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.

I am not a great cook I am not a great artist but I love art and I love food so I am the perfect traveller.

Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall.

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.

It is in this power of saying everything and yet saying nothing too plainly that the perfection of art consists.

The art of life is to live in the present moment and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.

The finest works of art are precious among other reasons because they make it possible for us to know if only imperfectly and for a little while what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

It is through art and through art only that we can realise our perfection.

To an engineer good enough means perfect. With an artist there's no such thing as perfect.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

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.

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

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.

Trifles make perfection and perfection is no trifle.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.