Imperfect Beauty Quotes

I can't tell you how many doctors try to sell me a facelift. I've even gone as far as having someone talk me into it, but when I went over and looked at pictures of myself, I thought 'What are they going to lift?' . . Frankly, I think that in the art of aging well there's this sexuality to having those imperfections. It's sensual.

I've always thought that you don't love a country by turning a blind eye to its crimes and to a problem. The way that you love a country is by seeing everything that it's done wrong, all of its mistakes, and still thinking that it's beautiful and that it's worthy.

i would rather be married to broken jade than flawless clay

It's the imperfections that make things beautiful.

I don't love Photoshop; I like imperfection. It doesn't mean ugly. I love a girl with a gap between her teeth, versus perfect white veneers. Perfection is just... boring. Perfect is what's natural or real; that is beauty.

Unless you're Gisele, you wake up some days and feel ugly. When that happens, I accept that I'm not perfect and it's OK; I can start over again tomorrow.

Take joy in who you are, we know our wings are flawed.

Imperfection is the new perfection.

I think you kind of lose the human aspect when you make things too perfect.

I do one take; I never overdubbed twice. I know there's stuff that isn't perfect, but it doesn't matter: Nothing is perfect, and there is a magic there that is undeniable because of the fact that we don't care about those things.

Hold fast to whatever fragments of love that exist, for sometimes a mosaic is more beautiful than an unbroken pattern.

Imperfection is underrated. Perfection is overrated.

Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted.

About 80 percent of the stuff I live with is old. I like letting things take on the character they’re meant to have by really being used. … when you own things that have the imperfections they deserve, that they’ve earned from a well-lived life, it frees you from feeling as though they’re untouchable.

The whole point about beauty is its imperfection.

I don't like anything too perfect, or anyone who looks like they have just stepped out of a salon; that's not for me.

Nothing in the world in perfect. Even a still photograph.

Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality.

Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.

Perfection is really boring!

I rather like a certain clumsiness in a work of art.

It is clear I was never the Pretty Girl. I had my two front teeth knocked out when I was 10 and didn't fix them until I was 19. I have a crooked smile and a nose that looks like it's been broken 12 times but never has been. My nose was always red, so people called me Rudolph. My whole face is off-center.

I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect.

But aren't many gardens beautiful because they are imperfect?...aren't the strange, new flowers that arise by mistake or misadventure as pleasing as the well-tended and planned?

It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring on live TV.