Unattainable Ideal Quotes

I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.

That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.

I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp...Then I'd find another one.

A romantic striving for an impossible ideal.

It's always necessary to seek for perfection. Obviously, for us, this word no longer has the same meaning. To me, it means: from one canvas to the next, always go further, further.

I reached my full height at age 11, and I was clumsy as all get-out - all elbows and knees, couldn't get up a flight of stairs without falling down. I wanted to be a cute, petite blonde, but I'm a big ol' strapping thing, so I just accept it.

Beauty is aspirational - an ideal that mortals approach but seldom attain.

Perfection' is man's ultimate illusion. It simply doesn't exist in the universe.... If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do.

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

There's a whole form of literature in India which talks about the quest for the perfect man by a woman, where every woman looks for a perfect man but only ends up with half that.

I have somebody I admire and want to keep at a distance. I've had the opportunity to meet her a couple of times - it's Chrissie Hynde from The Pretenders. I just am nuts about her, but I have no interest in meeting her because I just don't think she could live up to what she's been to me in my head.

I am the pedophiles dream, a messianic Peter Pan.

The trouble is the kind of guy I want to go out with doesn't even exist... Like a rugged, chain-smoking, intellectual, adventurer guy who's really serious, but also really funny and mean.

One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.

The fact is, there is only one body ideal in fashion, and most likely, you don't have it.

The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.

Ideally, if anything [was] any good, it would be indescribable.

Perfect little dream, The kind that hurts the most.

Is love like art - something always ahead, never quite attained.

Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized

I find the term 'perfect child' to be an oxymoron.

Not that it was Twiggy's fault, but the ubiquity of her image created a sense in young women that to be stylish meant to be skinny, flat-chested with an ingenue face and straight hair.

I felt like I had to be, you know, perfect, which is ridiculous. Nobody's perfect.

There is something very utopian about what I do. But utopia is nothing more than a truth that the world is not yet ready to hear.

The love that is never to be realized will often remain a man's guiding ideal.