Roger Rees Quotes

I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.

I'm pretty aware that the pursuit of perfection is, inherently, a flawed concept.

If you are afflicted with an artistic feeling, it's just perfecting something.

You stand your ground and you perform your art. That's what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.

You can never reach the promised land. You can march towards it.

In my drive to be the perfect artist, I've left a lot of living to the side.

You can't ever reach perfection in this business, but that's one of the things I love. It's something that can't ever be mastered, but you can attempt to get as close as possible.

Of all the albums I've made, I still don't feel like I've made the perfect album. I've had ones that touch on this, and others that touch on that, but never one that's just perfect and fully relevant. I don't know if I'll ever make it, but I'm certainly trying every day.

Surely the novel should be a form of art - but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection of art, but the imperfection of nature.

Perfectionism is self destructive simply because there's no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal.

The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all.

My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often - in fact, mostly - at the expense of everything else in my life.

Art is the employent of the powers of nature for an end.

You always want to write the perfect song. But no one will ever write the perfect song, I guess. I would just like to write on that has all the elements of what I'm tring to do. And I'm working on it. I'm always working on it.

It's the most satisfying occupation man has discovered yet, because you never can quite do it as well as you want to, so there's always something to wake up tomorrow morning to do.

I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art.

Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal.

All art is in the last analysis an endeavor to condense as out of the flying vapor of the world an image of human perfection, and for its own and not for the art's sake.

Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed.

It's very frustrating making a picture in Paris. We work hard all day at the studio to get a love scene just right. Then, on my way home, I see couples on every street corner doing it better.

Producing perfection from imperfection is, after all, the highest of art forms.

I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.

Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving.

Engineering, like poetry, is an attempt to approach perfection. And engineers, like poets, are seldom completely satisfied with their creations. They notice, even if no one else does, the world that is not quite le mot juste, or the hairline crack that blemishes the structure.

Perfectionism is self-destructive simply because there is no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal. Additionally, perfectionism is more about perception - we want to be perceived as perfect. Again, this is unattainable - there is no way to control perception, regardless of how much time and energy we spend trying.