Jean Arp Quotes

It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring on live TV.

Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes.

I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. But I'm of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially in art.

Everyone should be sacked at least once in their career because perfection doesn't exist. It's important to have setbacks, because that is the reality of life.

There is no perfection only life

Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend.

Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. Frigidaires are perfect. Beauty limps. My frigidaire has had to be replaced.

I find that the quest to be perfect and make perfect music is like a black whole. I realize that you can come with the intention to capture a vibe and use a formula, but you have to accept that most of the time its not going to be what you envisioned and you might manifest something better. I think that's been the hardest thing to wrap my head around that most ideas we go for ends up sounding different. I think art in general should be about enjoying the process and the experience. All that matters is if you feel the music and it captures the element your going for.

... imperfection would get me farther than perfection.

Do not be afraid of perfection - you will never attain it.

If they who understand the utmost refinement of any art will enjoy the perfection of it in a manner superior to other men, will they not amply pay for that advantage in feeling more than other men the imperfection of it, which in the natural course of things must so much oftener fall in their way?

Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.

I don't believe in perfection. I don't think it exists.

That's just a part of being an artist: you can't write great stuff all the time, because if you did, then you'd be inhuman. The human side of people is that sometimes they fail.

Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted.

A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.

Man is rotten with perfection.

What you create doesn’t have to be perfect. So what if the eggs are greasy or the toast is burned? Don’t let fear of failure discourage you.

Welcoming imperfection is the way to accomplish what perfectionism promises but never delivers. It gives us our best performance and genuine acceptance in the family of human -- and by that I mean imperfect -- beings.

The imperfect is our paradise.

Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.

Perfection can never be attained by work.

If you wait for things to be perfect you'll just miss out on life.

Great art is never perfect; perfect art is never great.