William Butler Yeats Quotes, Art Quotes, Perfection Quotes

All art is in the last analysis an endeavor to condense as out of the flying vapor of the world an image of human perfection, and for its own and not for the art's sake.

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PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic.

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I would with such perfection govern, sir, T'excel the golden age.

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The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.

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The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended; and I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. How many thing by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection!

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All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one.

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A man obsessed: obsessed with perfection, sharing, aesthetics, taste, savoir-faire, and much more.

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When confronted with a situation that appears fragmented or impossible, step back, close your eyes, and envision perfection where you saw brokenness. Go to the inner place where there is no problem, and abide in the consciousness of well-being.

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To feel much for others and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature.

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Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.

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To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.

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Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.

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If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

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True perfection seems imperfect, yet it is perfectly itself. True fullness seems empty, yet it is fully present. True straightness seems crooked. True wisdom seems foolish. True art seems artless. The Master allows things to happen. She shapes events as they come. She steps out of the way and lets the Tao speak for itself.

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I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can.

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The division of labor, which has brought such perfection in mechanical industries, is altogether fatal when applied to productions of the mind. All work of the mind is superior in proportion as the mind that produces it is universal.

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It is nature that is driving us towards perfection, and eventually she will bring everyone there.

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While real perfection is only one, relative perfections must be many.

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Those who wish to attain God and progress in religious devotion, should particularly guard themselves against the snares of lust and wealth. Otherwise they can never attain perfection.

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Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?

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