When a man has no longer any conception of excellence above his own, his voyage is done, he is dead,--dead in trespasses and sin of blear-eyed vanity..

Talented people almost always know full well the excellence that is in them..

Men are in the main alike, but they were made several in order that they might be various. If a low use is to be served, one man will do nearly quite….

We must die to become true human beings..

Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and--prayer..

We can't achieve excellence through talent alone. Or merely by making technological improvements. We can't even buy our way to excellence, no matter ….

Notice that "I" is at the center of the word "ethical." There is no "they." Achieving the ethics of excellence is our individual assignment..

I'm a perfectionist, and I always think that I can do better what I have done, even if it's good..

Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual sincerity of disposition. Suc….

The combination of creative energies and the need to perform at the highest level to keep up with peers leads to an otherwise unattainable commitment….

A good taste in art feels the presence or the absence of merit; a just taste discriminates the degree--the poco piu and the poco meno. A good taste r….

To never aspire to excellence means to never fully comprehend the amount of work required to achieve it..

We usually get what we anticipate..

Form, which should be the clean - cut expression of mechanical excellence has become sensuous and organic..

When I work, I work. I don't think about anything else. I just wanna get the work done. And I'm a perfectionist..