A Quote by Frank Herbert

Producing perfection from imperfection is, after all, the highest of art forms.

Frank Herbert

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Frank Herbert
American - Writer
October 8, 1920 - February 11, 1986

Surely the novel should be a form of art - but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection of art, but the imperfection of nature.

Ellen Glasgow

Your desire for perfection is the cause of anger. Leave room for imperfection. Perfection in action is almost impossible.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

We learn as much by others' failings as by their teachings. Examples of imperfection is just as useful for achieving perfection as are models of competence and perfection.

Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

Mark Twain

Where the perhapses are found something has to be done about it and since art deals in the perhapses & maybe sos why not call it the consummate science — which gets its perfection from seeming imperfection.

John Marin

I find comedy to be one of the highest of the art forms.

Taylor Momsen

To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Perfection isn't human. Human beings are not perfect. What evokes our love--and I mean love, not lust--is the imperfection of the human being. So, when the imperfection of the real person peaks through, say, 'This is a challenge to my compassion.' Then make a try, and something might begin to get going.

Joseph Campbell

Imperfection is perfection.

Flume

Grain is life, there's all this striving for perfection with digital stuff. Striving is fine, but getting there is not great. I want a sense of the human and that is what breathes life into a picture. For me, imperfection is perfection.

Anton Corbijn

Perfection itself is imperfection.

Vladimir Horowitz

Imperfection is the new perfection.

Hina Khan

In my eyes, perfection is imperfection

Ville Valo

The highest art one can learn is the art of loving, and that the ultimate creativity and the highest art are born out of a knack - meditation.

Rajneesh

To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species. The essence of man is imperfection. Imperfection and blazing contradictions-between mixed good and evil, altruism and selfishness, cooperativeness and combativeness, optimism and fatalism, affirmation and negation.

Norman Cousins

Imperfection is underrated. Perfection is overrated.

Helena Bonham Carter

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