Virginia Woolf Quotes

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.

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

Perfection is very difficult to achieve, and perfection was what I wanted in McDonald's. Everything else was secondary for me.

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn't. And that's a tough place to be because you're never satisfied.

I have this obsession with pea pods. They're just really nice to look at. They can be perfect.

God is in the details.

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

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

But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.

My idea of heaven is not writing.

There's a lot of integrity with musicians; you really still aspire to grow, and be great, to be the best version of yourself you can be.

If you wait this long to put an album out, you'd better be sure you tried your best.

Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.

I think I was always obsessed with esthetics.

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

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

Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And because he proved it's possible to be an artist and a good person.

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

It may be an instinct, it is with me anyway, when you're presenting something to the world, to make it as beautiful as you can.

Nintendo is a company of Kyoto craftsmen, and what we don't want to do is, if we know we can make something better, we don't want to leave that behind.

Architects think that beauty is a crime.

It's very hard to find perfection in your life. But in the art world you can do that.