Piet Mondrian Quotes

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

I don't care if you're doing haute cuisine or burgers and pizza, just do it right.

Commit yourself to quality from day one... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

If you're going to do a job, do it right. If you're going to throw a birthday party, make it amazing. If you're going to do anything, do it awesome.

Good is the enemy of great.

One should always try to do the best you possibly can. I'm not in a race to the finish line - I won't put anything out until it's completely ready. You want to keep it special and unique for the customer.

The best is the enemy of the good.

I wanted nothing else than to make the object as perfect as possible.

I won't do anything unless it's the absolute best.

If I'm going to do something, I'm going to spend however long it takes to get it right.

I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.

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

It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

I don't care how small the parts are, as long as they're good.

I don't want to record anything unless it can be great and genuinely interesting.

What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.

Good enough never is.

All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.

It's all about perfection, isn't it?

That's all I cared about too, was getting it right.

I just think if you're going to do something, do it properly.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.