Aesthetic Imperfection Quotes

The whole point about beauty is its imperfection.

I rather like a certain clumsiness in a work of art.

To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness.

I see flaws as a kind of beauty.

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

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

It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.

The rationalism of the creative minds was tempered by abundant fantasies, and the supreme beauty of the monuments was probably spoiled by the circumambient vanities and ugliness; in a few cases the Greeks came as close to perfection as it was possible to do, yet they were human and imperfect.

What was venerated as style was nothing more than an imperfection or flaw that revealed the guilty hand.