Unattainable Ideal Quotes

I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.

That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.

I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp...Then I'd find another one.

A romantic striving for an impossible ideal.

Perfection' is man's ultimate illusion. It simply doesn't exist in the universe.... If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do.

I reached my full height at age 11, and I was clumsy as all get-out - all elbows and knees, couldn't get up a flight of stairs without falling down. I wanted to be a cute, petite blonde, but I'm a big ol' strapping thing, so I just accept it.

Beauty is aspirational - an ideal that mortals approach but seldom attain.

It's always necessary to seek for perfection. Obviously, for us, this word no longer has the same meaning. To me, it means: from one canvas to the next, always go further, further.

There's a whole form of literature in India which talks about the quest for the perfect man by a woman, where every woman looks for a perfect man but only ends up with half that.

I have somebody I admire and want to keep at a distance. I've had the opportunity to meet her a couple of times - it's Chrissie Hynde from The Pretenders. I just am nuts about her, but I have no interest in meeting her because I just don't think she could live up to what she's been to me in my head.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

I am the pedophiles dream, a messianic Peter Pan.

The trouble is the kind of guy I want to go out with doesn't even exist... Like a rugged, chain-smoking, intellectual, adventurer guy who's really serious, but also really funny and mean.

One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.

The fact is, there is only one body ideal in fashion, and most likely, you don't have it.

The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.

Ideally, if anything [was] any good, it would be indescribable.

Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized

Is love like art - something always ahead, never quite attained.

I find the term 'perfect child' to be an oxymoron.

Perfect little dream, The kind that hurts the most.

Not that it was Twiggy's fault, but the ubiquity of her image created a sense in young women that to be stylish meant to be skinny, flat-chested with an ingenue face and straight hair.

There is something very utopian about what I do. But utopia is nothing more than a truth that the world is not yet ready to hear.

The love that is never to be realized will often remain a man's guiding ideal.

There is no magic person out there, no perfect human being out there waiting for you.