Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.

They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.

Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.

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

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

The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take read more

The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.