Lisa See Quotes

A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections.

I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.

I don't love Photoshop; I like imperfection. It doesn't mean ugly. I love a girl with a gap between her teeth, versus perfect white veneers. Perfection is just... boring. Perfect is what's natural or real; that is beauty.

It is clear I was never the Pretty Girl. I had my two front teeth knocked out when I was 10 and didn't fix them until I was 19. I have a crooked smile and a nose that looks like it's been broken 12 times but never has been. My nose was always red, so people called me Rudolph. My whole face is off-center.

I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect.

Beauty doesn't have to be the perfect image. It's more interesting to have something a bit off.

No man, no woman is without their flaws.

I love faces that have freckles. I love faces that have wrinkles. For me, beauty is naturalism, I guess.

He has to take me as I am, broken bits and all.

I know I ain't nobody's bargain, but hell a little touchup and a little paint.

I hate it when, in films, the girl looks perfect in every shot. It's quite nice if there's a bit of dark circles underneath the eyes, if we see the reality of the situation that the person is going through.

I want to put a soul in a garment. I don't want my clothes to be perfect, because human beings are not perfect.

The moderns cannot reach their beauties, but can avoid their imperfections.

I find this curious - two photos from today, one edited so my skin is perfect and one real. remember flaws are ok.

Imperfections are attractive when their owners are happy with them.

Who are we? We're not perfect but we're not worthless. Scripture tells us that we're beautifully made, but broken.

I tend to really like things that are broken, I like the ones that are perfectly imperfect.

We all start out thinking that there is such a thing as perfection and that there's something wrong with us if we settle for less. First we won't eat the food with the brown spots. Then we hate ourselves because we have our own brown spots—pimples or ears that are too big or legs that are too skinny.

Take joy in who you are, we know our wings are flawed.

In beauty faults conspicuous grow; The smallest speck is seen on snow.

There's something ugly about the flawless.

It's the imperfections that make things beautiful.

You don’t have to be perfect to be pretty.

About 80 percent of the stuff I live with is old. I like letting things take on the character they’re meant to have by really being used. … when you own things that have the imperfections they deserve, that they’ve earned from a well-lived life, it frees you from feeling as though they’re untouchable.

I'm excited about the ageing process. I'm more interested in women who aren't perfect. They're more compelling.