Democritus Quotes

Everything beautiful has to be worked for.

I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.

There are no shortcuts to true excellence.

Whatever you do, take pride in it and be great at it.

That's kind of how I see my workmanship: it's how many hours I put in that makes me better.

I just want to do the best I can every time.

I am ambitious to do good work and do it really well.

God never made anything else so beautiful as man.

For the world is not painted, or adorned, but is from the beginning beautiful; and God has not made some beautiful things, but Beauty is the creator of the universe.

Any job worth doing is worth doing well. But to be able to do that, you have to do it over and over again.

Whatever you do,strive to do it so well that no man living and no man dead and no man yet to be born could do it any better.

I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

The nut of the thing is that if what you make is hard like a diamond, you can put it anywhere. You can put it up your and it will still be beautiful.

I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares, as opposed to ugly things. That's my intent.

Great strokes make not sweete musick.

That kind of friendship doesn't just materialize at the end of the rainbow one morning in a soft-focus Hollywood haze. For it to last this long, and at such close quarters, some serious work had gone into it. Ask any ice-skater or ballet dancer or show jumper, anyone who lives by beautiful moving things: nothing takes as much work as effortlessness.

The main thing I need to do is create, hopefully, exquisitely beautiful, desirable objects for my customer.

Beautiful people do not just happen

There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.

Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.

I'm surrounded by young and beautiful people. I hate looking at ugliness.

Everything stinks till it’s finished.

Take pains. Be perfect.