Titon Rahmawan quote: “Reality is not a utopia, it always contains imperfections. It is in the imperfections that human life finds meaning.”

“It is because human needs are contradictory that no human life can be perfect. That does not mean that human life is imperfect. It means that the idea of perfection has no meaning.”

John Gray (1948) British philosopher

'Modus Vivendi' (p.29)
Gray's Anatomy: Selected Writings (2009)

“All of us are imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“I always find beauty in things that are odd & imperfect - they are much more interesting.”

Marc Jacobs (1963) American fashion designer

“I can in no other way overcome my imperfections and the imperfections of life than by translating the meaning of my existence into the spiritual, into that which is independent of the mortal body, that is, the abstract.”

Franz Marc (1880–1916) German painter

Quote, (August 1914); as quoted in Franz Marc, horses, ed. Christian von Holst, Hatje Cantz Publishers, (undated), 15 December 1914, p.34
by the outbreak of World War 1. in August 1914 the animals had disappeared in Marc's art. Only colours and forms – the abstract – had to evoke the spiritual]
1911 - 1914

“Human nature is imperfect.”

Edward Hall Alderson (1787–1857) Lawyer and jurist

Howard v. Gosset (1844), 6 St. Tr. (N. S.) 365.

“Abstract perfection should always be the direction aimed at by human efforts, however imperfect they may be”

Robert Chambers (publisher, born 1802) (1802–1871) Scottish publisher and writer

Source: Sanitary Economy (1850), p. 17
Context: Abstract perfection should always be the direction aimed at by human efforts, however imperfect they may be; and the success of sanitary legislation will be indicated by the nearness or the distance of its actual practice from this perfect idea.