The finest works of art are precious among other reasons because they make it possible for us to know if only imperfectly and for a little while what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

It is through art and through art only that we can realise our perfection.

To an engineer good enough means perfect. With an artist there's no such thing as perfect.

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

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

I've been called many names like perfectionist difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.

Trifles make perfection and perfection is no trifle.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.