Nam June Paik Quotes

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

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.

If you're a perfectionist and you know you're about to do something at which you cannot be perfect, then that is daunting because you know what your heart is like and the way you approach your work.

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

If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.

False notes [on the piano] are human. Why does everything have to be perfect? You know, perfection itself is imperfection.

You don't have to be perfect. Most men never think like that.

I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.

Some men are more perfect than others.

Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even its imperfection.

You can wait forever for perfect conditions or you can make do with what you have.

The challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.

I look at my homely sketch. It doesn't need anything. Even through the river in my eyes I can see that. It isn't perfect and that makes it just right.

No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.

I’m so worried that I’m going to perfect [my] technique someday. I have to say its unfortunate how many of my pictures do depend upon some technical error.

I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let... lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may.

I'm addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos.

Everybody's got regrets. Everybody's made mistakes. Nobody's perfect.

The perfectionist is bound to be a neurotic, he cannot enjoy life, until he is perfect. And perfection as such never happens, it is not in the nature of things. Totality is possible, perfection is not possible.

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.

That sucks, though," Wes said finally, his voice low. "You're just setting yourself up to fail, because you'll never get everything perfect." "Says who?" He just looked at me. "The world," he said, gesturing all around us, as if this party, this deck encompassed it all. "The universe. There's just no way. And why would you want everything to be perfect, anyway?" "I don't want everything to be perfect," I said. Just me, I thought. Somehow. "I just want—

What is perfect? Journey, a thing doesn't have to be perfect to be fine. That goes for a picture. That goes for life....Things can be good enough.

No one's perfect," I whisper. "It doesn't work that way. One bad thing goes away, and another bad thing replaces it." I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.

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

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